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I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realized I'm not special.

Marian Keyes

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Marian Keyes
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 10
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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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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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I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.
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Political correctness is a minefield
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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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One day we'll all be dead, and none of this will matter -The Brightest Star in the Sky.
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Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
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Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.
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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 like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.
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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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My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.
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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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I sighed. What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?
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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'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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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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The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
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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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