Top 22 A. L. Kennedy Quotes

#1. The only contry in the world where there's a majority of women in parliament is Rwanda. Rwanda. That's when women get power, real power - if the men are either dead or in prison.

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#2. She wanted to give people something kind and simple. That wasn't available.
The cheap cake was horrible. The expensive cake tasted of greed - of greedy bakers.
She couldn't win.
Who knew cake was such a bastard?

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#3. - you have the Hindenburg burning inside you always -

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#4. Reality - there's nothing but horror in that.

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#5. He's doing something in Surbiton next. Or Serbia, one or the other.

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#6. The right wrist, because I'm right-handed - so that must be the one that's done most wrong. Although, now that I think, my sins have mostly been ambidextrous.

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#7. I am delicate and the world is impossibly wrong, is unthinkable and I am not forewarned, forearmed, equipped. I cannot manage. If there was something useful I could do, I would - but there isn't. So I drink.

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#8. Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.

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#9. But the silent majority and I do have one memorial, at least. The Disaster. We have small lives, easily lost in foreign droughts, or famines; the occasional incendiary incident, or a wall of pale faces, crushed against grillwork, one Saturday afternoon in Spring. This is not enough.

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#10. Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.

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#11. Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

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#12. We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.

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#13. There, there, dear, we're sorry that you'll keep on being you. It's rotten, but what are the choices...?

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#14. looked at the better-informed faces passing with that Westminster Expression, the Estate Expression: a certain gravitas, a pinch of visible intelligence, alert attention, and - above all - irritation. Westminster found all that was not Westminster - and much that was - deeply irritating. Here

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#15. Perhaps i am a masochist.
No. Not Possible. If I were basically a masochist then most of my life would have been just nothing but concentrated fun. Every time I woke up, bleeding from my heart and soul, I'd find myself barely able to hide my joy.

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#16. I like cautious people. They are like me. Not that I like me.

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#17. Breathing is supposed to keep you calm, but also it keeps you alive and so you are not calm, because you are alive and being alive is never calm.

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#18. I end up discussing the weather when the weather is all around us and both I and whoever the stranger might be must surely have noticed it. We would be better off asking each other if our faces are still there.

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#19. If ever the difficulties of your life seem overwhelming, consider the prospect of being eaten alive by savage penguins and rejoice that such horrors are unknown to you.

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#20. Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,

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#21. Do I echo because I am hollow, or because I am a captive animal under stress and reassured by repetitions?

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#22. You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

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