“… people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.”

— Edna O'Brien, book Girls in Their Married Bliss

Source: Girls in Their Married Bliss

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Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short… 1930

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