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

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Source : Maeve Binchy (2007). “Tara Road”, p.45, Dell

Maeve Binchy

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Worry Quotes

“I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.”
“To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.”

Source : Robert Francis Kilvert, William Plomer (1969). “Kilvert's diary: selections from the diary of the Rev. Francis Kilvert, 1 January 1870-[13 March 1879]”, Jonathan Cape
“I do not consider myself beautiful.”
“Even Australians who take a very, very hard line about asylum seekers - and unfortunately there are more than I would like to think - are probably a bit uncomfortable with the kind of treatment that has been meted out to children in detention by the Australian Government, in their name.”
“I'm grateful for believing in a religion that can naturally adapt to changing times yet uphold timeless values and principles.”
“The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.”
“A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.”
“The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.”

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