It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees. - Sue Townsend
I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
- Sue Townsend
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 go… - Sue Townsend
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 go…
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house. - Sue Townsend
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loath… - Sue Townsend
I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loath…
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 her. - Sue Townsend
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 her.
Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador. - Sue Townsend
Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice. - Sue Townsend
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. - Sue Townsend
Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
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 what it was like to be p… - Sue Townsend
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 what it was like to be p…
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