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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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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've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.
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They say the path of true love never runs smooth. Well, Luke and my true love's path didn't run at all, it limped along in new boots that were chafing its heels. Blistered and cut, red and raw, every hopping, lopsided step, a little slice of agony.
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I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
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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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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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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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