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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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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
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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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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.
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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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Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
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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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Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.
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What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
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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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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
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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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You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.
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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 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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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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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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