Sue Townsend Quotes

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• I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.
• I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three…
• I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell good.…
• My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.
• Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
• I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.
• The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
• 8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with…
• Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds…
• There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.
• Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else…
• I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
• She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.
• Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.
• I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget…
• When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards.
• I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!
• Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.
• I could have been a better mother. My children assure me it was fine. But when you are running to catch the train to go…
• I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

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