Wendy Cope Quotes

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• Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others…
• I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
• When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write,…
• I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at…
• I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
• I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at…
• I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
• In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time…
• Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
• The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it…
• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
• I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic…
• On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove…
• My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And…
• At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—…
• Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.
• I like a quiet life.

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