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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
Limerick City
Become
Never
Love
Bitter
Although
Creative
Anyone

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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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I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
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I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.
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He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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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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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 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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Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.
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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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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
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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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