"I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word,……" — Marian Keyes
"I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways."
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83 Quotes by Marian Keyes
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Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or…
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I haven’t had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that…
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Love and kindness go hand in hand.
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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…
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As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and…
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Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen.
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Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has…
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For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.
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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 am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't…
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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…
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I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe.
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More Denial Quotes
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
— Javier Bardem
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who…
— Martha Beck
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
— Isaiah Berlin
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
— David Bowie
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization…
— Barbara Boxer
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People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
— Julie Burchill
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