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Great Quotes by Maeve Binchy
- I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
- I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and…
- 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…
- I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
- I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
- I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer…
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