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I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
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Limerick City
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The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.
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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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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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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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Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.
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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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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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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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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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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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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 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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Optimism can be relearnt.
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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 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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