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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
Brightest
Sky
Star
None
Dead
Stars
Matter

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
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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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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 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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Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.
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Political correctness is a minefield
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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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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
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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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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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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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