Irish - Author | 1991 -
I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.
Sally Rooney
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A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'
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The window in which it's acceptable to listen to Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 record 'Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas' is short, so I keep it in heavy rotation throughout the festive season.
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For me, watching Mohamed Salah play football is not unlike staring up at the stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe: it makes my own life seem nice and small.
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In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.'
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You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.
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I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
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I don't really believe in the idea of the individual.
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I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.
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I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.
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I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.
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What does it mean to have a healthy relationship? It's such a strangely clinical way of talking about interpersonal dynamics, like you can do a white blood cell count and say, 'No, it's not looking good for that one.' It's impossible to have a loving relationship in which you never cause pain and no pain ever is caused to you.
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