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Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
Marian Keyes
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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
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Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
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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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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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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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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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Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
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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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Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.
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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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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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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.
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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 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 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 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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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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