Sue Townsend Quotes

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I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

Sue Townsend
I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

Sue Townsend
Helped grandma with the weekend shopping. She was dead fierce in the grocer's; she watched the scales like a hawk watching a fieldmouse. Then she pounced and accused the shop assistant of giving her underweight bacon. The shop assistant was dead scared of her and put another slice on.

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Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

Sue Townsend
My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.

Sue Townsend
I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

Sue Townsend
She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

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.

Sue Townsend
My brain is hurting. I have just had two pages of Macbeth to translate into English.

Sue Townsend
Marriage is nothing like being in prison! Women are let out every day to go to the shops and stuff, and quite a lot go to work.

Sue Townsend
Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

Sue Townsend
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.

Sue Townsend
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.

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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.

Sue Townsend
Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

Sue Townsend