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Maeve Binchy Quotes

1939–2012 Ireland

Maeve Binchy Snell (May 28 1939 – July 30 2012) was a bestselling Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist and speaker best known for her humorous take on small-town life in Ireland, her descriptive characters, her interest in human nature and her often clever surprise endings.

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Random Maeve Binchy quote

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

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

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

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

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maeve Binchy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.