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" The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. "
Sue Townsend
Dance
Still
Finished
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" I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living. "
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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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" I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life. "
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" Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. "
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" My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment. "
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" Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. "
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" When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people. "
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" I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors. "
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" I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house. "
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Wrote
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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 prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond! "
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" I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason. "
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" I am the world's worst diabetic. "
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" Live with all of your senses. "
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" Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other. "
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" I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle. "
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" I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler. "
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" Watching 'The Jeremy Kyle Show' is my guilty pleasure. "
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Show
Watching
" When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards. "
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Midnight
Were
Write
" I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard. "
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Touch
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" I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. "
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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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" I became an insomniac, really, hardly slept at all, didn't even try to. And it's carried on. I hate to say I only need as much sleep as Mrs. Thatcher, but I can cope really well on five hours. "
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" I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.' "
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" Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice. "
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