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I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.
Maeve Binchy
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Maeve Binchy
Age: 73 †
Born: 1939
Born: May 29
Died: 2012
Died: July 30
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I wrote the previous day I think it's fairly entertaining other times I think it's pure rubbish. The main thing is not to take any notice, not to be elated or upset, just keep going.
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If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.
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You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I'm particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.
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I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
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I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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