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

—  Maeve Binchy

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

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Irish novelist 1940–2012

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