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Edna Longley
"Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical."
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Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009. 
Edna Longley
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“A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.”
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“The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.”
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“One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.”
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“Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.”
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“In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.”
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“Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.”
Source : "Locations: A Wine Life Hack" by Tara Fass, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2016.
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“In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.”
