Sue Townsend
Novelist
1946-04-02
Books by Sue Townsend
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The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year
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The Queen and I
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The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman
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Quotes by Sue Townsend
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Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.
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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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Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.
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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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Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us.
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Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed.
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Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
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The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
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My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay.
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I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.
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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 poor.
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