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Love and kindness go hand in hand.

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
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Limerick City
Kindness
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Optimism can be relearnt.
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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'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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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 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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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
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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 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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One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter -The Brightest Star in the Sky.
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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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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 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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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 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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I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
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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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I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
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