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Wendy Cope Quotes
English
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Poet
July 21, 1945
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
Wendy Cope
Peace
Men
Earth
Loving
Bloody
Christmas
Cup
Goodwill
Let Us
Raise
Washing
Again
Here
Make
Them
Up
Us
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
Wendy Cope
You
Men
Your
Wait
About A Year
Appear
Approaches
Bloody
Buses
About
Like
Others
Soon
Stop
Three
Two
Year
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Wendy Cope
Life
Good
Women
Happy Life
Arises
Plots
Supply
Tragic
Women Writers
Better
Happy
I Think
Over
Particularly
Question
Think
Whether
Which
Writers
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Wendy Cope
Never
More
Famous
Than
Suddenly
Been
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.
Wendy Cope
You
Think
More
Tell
Journalists
Poems
Prepared
Going
Lot
Said
Say
Them
Then
Whole
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 they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
Wendy Cope
You
Light
Who
Being
Humour
Interesting Thing
Poems
Poet
Afraid
Because
Interesting
Keep
Meet
Often
Out
Seen
Sense
Some
Them
Thing
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 used to think: 'What about people like me?'
Wendy Cope
Life
Alone
Family
Me
Family Values
Phase
Upset
About
Because
Felt
Like
Long
Long Time
Much
My Life
People
Single
Talk
Think
Time
Used
Values
Very
World
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're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope
You
Always
Someone
Writing
Poem
Publish
Publishing
Separate
Students
Upset
Afraid
Going
Quite
Should
Tell
Things
Two
Write
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.
Wendy Cope
You
Better
Parents
Who
Better Off
Boarding
Boarding School
Send
Theory
Got
Kind
Off
School
Want
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
Wendy Cope
Long
Time
Confidence
Thinking
Gaps
Lack
Quite A Lot
Between
Books
Case
Got
Lot
Quite
Start
Writing
I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope
Life
Like
Quiet
Quiet Life
I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
Wendy Cope
Clothes
Like
Get
Buying
Allowance
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
Wendy Cope
Funny
Family
Think
Laugh
Family Values
Humour
Poems
Quite A Lot
Everyone
Going
Lot
Make
Quite
Some
Them
Values
Want
Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
Wendy Cope
Funny
Become
Been
Less
Happier
Possibly
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