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One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter -The Brightest Star in the Sky.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Star
None
Dead
Stars
Matter
Brightest
Sky

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It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.
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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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My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.I nodded mutely.'That's a bit what giving birth is like.
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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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when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
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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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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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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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The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.
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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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Love and kindness go hand in hand.
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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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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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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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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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Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
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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 sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
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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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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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