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Maeve Binchy foi uma escritora, professora e articulista irlandesa. Conhecida por sua simpatia e sua frequente forma bem humorada de retratar a vida dos pequenos povoados irlandeses, por seus personagens descritivos, por seu interesse pela natureza humana e pelos surpreendentes e astuciosos finais de seus escritos. Seus romances traduzidos para 37 línguas, venderam mais de 40 milhões de cópias ao redor do mundo. E sua morte aos 73 anos, anunciada por Vincent Browne na televisão irlandesa na noite de 30 de julho de 2012, foi lamentada como a morte da mais amada e reconhecida escritora da Irlanda.

Ela quebrou o mercado literário americano, se apresentando na lista de best-sellers do The New York Times e no Oprah´s Book Club.

Conhecida por sua "total ausência de malícia" e generosidade para com outros escritores, ela ficou em 3° lugar em uma pesquisa de opinião para o dia mundial do livro realizada em 2000, à frente de Jane Austen, Charles Dickens e Stephen King Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Maio 1940 – 30. Julho 2012
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Maeve Binchy: Frases em inglês

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

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“(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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On Gordon Snell, her husband. irishtimes.com http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2012/0731/1224321158054.html

“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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On having her first book rejected again and again. bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19057922

“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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Recalling being invited to appear on French TV on what she described as “a terrifying serious program about books”. nydailynews.com http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/popular-irish-author-maeve-binchy-dies-72-article-1.1125516?localLinksEnabled=false

“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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On her preference for issues that could be argued with from either side. nydailynews.com http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/popular-irish-author-maeve-binchy-dies-72-article-1.1125516?pgno=1

“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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shelf-life.ew.com http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/07/31/circle-of-friends-author-maeve-binchy-dies/

“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 her secret to writing. bbc.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19057922

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

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When asked about her influences. guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/10/maevebinchy

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

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When asked in 1995 how she would like to die. guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1995/jul/22/fiction.maevebinchy?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

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