"I was single for a long time and……" — Wendy Cope
"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 that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?"
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Wendy Cope
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18 Quotes by Wendy Cope
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your…
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write…
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school,…
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them…
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence.…
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Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some…
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Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do…
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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