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You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

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Thinking, Law, People

Maeve Binchy (1993). “Circle of friends ; Silver wedding”

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She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

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Past, Should Have, Years

FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Sep 13, 2012

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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

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Years, Makers, Made

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On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

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Girl, Father, School

Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

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Children, Sides, Loser

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You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

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Voice, Believable, Ifs

"Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72". www.bbc.com. July 31, 2012.

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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.

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Doctors, Should Have, Different

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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

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Beautiful, Swans, Ugly Duckling

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I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

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Family And Friends, Age, Lucky

Maeve Binchy (2013). “Maeve's Times”, p.323, Hachette UK

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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

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Teacher, Children, Home

Interview With Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

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Teacher, Believe, Men

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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

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Grateful, Knowing, Appreciate

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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

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Kings, Journey, Airports

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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

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Mean, Blood, Pills

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I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

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Mad, Suffering, Saint

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I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.

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Life, Trying, Lasts

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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

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Good Life, Expected

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I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

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Understanding, Lucky, Sake

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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

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Cutting, Alcohol, Salt

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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

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Children, Gorgeous, Wanted

"This Life: Maeve Binchy on being unable to have children", www.dailymail.co.uk. September 27, 2008.

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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

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Brother, Married, Best Marriage

"The storyseller", www.theguardian.com. September 1, 1998.

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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

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Black And White, Getting Older, Used

Maeve Binchy (2014). “Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words”, p.397, Knopf

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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

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Mother, Fighting, Nurse

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When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

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Thinking, Parent, Rabbits

Interview With Jessica Simmons, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2010.

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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.

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Book, Writing, Long

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Born: May 28, 1940
Died: July 30, 2012
Occupation: Novelist
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