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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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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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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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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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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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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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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on.
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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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Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
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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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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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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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