"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I……" — Wendy Cope
"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."
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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 was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values…
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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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More Amuse Quotes
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother…
— Unknown Author
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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