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What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
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Limerick City
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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.
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Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.
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Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.
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For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.
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Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
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I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.
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It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.
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I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
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Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
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Political correctness is a minefield
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I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending.
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I've been so showered in life, beyond my wildest dreams, such as having a loving partner I never thought I'd have.
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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.
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Love and kindness go hand in hand.
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I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
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Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.
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I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.
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