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

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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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One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter -The Brightest Star in the Sky.
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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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Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
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I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
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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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Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.
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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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I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.
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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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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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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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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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Optimism can be relearnt.
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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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Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
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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 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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