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Political correctness is a minefield
Marian Keyes
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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
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Limerick City
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Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.
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smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.
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I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.
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I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.
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Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
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Optimism can be relearnt.
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I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
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I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, Where'd she go? and I have to say, I'm down here.
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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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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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I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
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Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.
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What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
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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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I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.
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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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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
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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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