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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
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Limerick City
Storyteller
Mother
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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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Political correctness is a minefield
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Love and kindness go hand in hand.
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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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One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter -The Brightest Star in the Sky.
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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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Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
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I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
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The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass.
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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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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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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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Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.
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What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.
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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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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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when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
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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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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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