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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 And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across

Wendy Cope's Popular Quotes

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

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Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

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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 …

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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, you're probably better off at boarding school.

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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, and if you'r…

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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 of them do keep it out of their poems because …

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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 a whole lot more.

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Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

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