Maeve Binchy Quotes

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I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.

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The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

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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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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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I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.

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It's not perfect, but to me on balance Right Now is a lot better than the Good Old Days.

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I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.

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Suddenly they asked me, as only the French would, 'Madame, what is your philosophy of life?' What a cosmic question, but I had to answer, and answer quickly, because it was live. So I said, in French, 'I think that you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.'

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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare', I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning', I say I 'passed a school'. You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.

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Of her husband:
A writer, a man I loved and he loved me and we got married and it was great and is still great. He believed I could do anything, just as my parents had believed all those years ago, and I started to write fiction and that took off fine. And he loved Ireland, and the fax was invented so we writers could live anywhere we liked, instead of living in London near publishers.

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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.

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The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

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It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

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People don't come in my size until they're old…I used to think people were born with big bones and large frames, but apparently these grow when you're about sixty-eight.

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It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

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