114 Quotes by Sue Townsend

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    She is just straight all the way up and down, including her nose and mouth and hair.

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    There’s only one thing more boring than listening to other people’s dreams, and that’s listening to their problems.

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    I asked her about my Family Allowance today, she laughed and said she used it for buying gin and cigarettes.

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    I haven’t used my brain for so long, the poor thing is huddled in a corner, waiting to be fed.

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    I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn’t a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

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    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 get away?

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    Barry Kent’s father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

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    You should only speak when you have something worth saying.

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