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Book: Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman
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  1. Nuala O'Faolain _ Are You Somebody?: The

    In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading itself. Following the line of something - not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend...
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  2. Nuala O'Faolain _ Are You Somebody?: The

    A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.
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  3. Nuala O'Faolain _ Are You Somebody?: The

    When I stay with the couple who are my closest friends, I hear them laughing and talking in bed, and sometimes in the middle of the night one of them goes down and makes tea, and when the clock goes off in the morning, they start again, talking to each other.
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  4. Nuala O'Faolain _ Are You Somebody?: The

    My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.
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  5. Nuala O'Faolain _ Are You Somebody?: The

    If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.
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