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There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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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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Sue Townsend
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Adrian Mole's diary
Easter
Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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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.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole #1))
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I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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I used to be the sort of boy who had sand kicked in his face, now I'm the sort of boy who watches somebody else have it kicked in their face
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran away with a circus knife thrower, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
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Sue Townsend (The Adrian Mole Diaries (Adrian Mole #1-2))
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I have realised I have never seen a dead body or a real female nipple. This is what comes of living in a cul-de-sac.
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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I always knew I had no small talk, and now I know I've got no big talk either.
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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Pauline: "All under-fives are mad Adrian, you used to talk to the moon. You invited it to your birthday party and cried when it didn't turn up."
George: "When it went dark and the moon came up, you ran outside and threw a sausage roll at it!
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Adrian Mole #8))
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Mrs O'Leary said, 'Tis the child I feel sorry for', and all the people looked up and saw me, so I looked especially sad, I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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I couldn't think of anything to say so I kept quiet. I still can't think of anything to say so I am going to sleep.
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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Had a note from Mr Cherry asking me when I can resume my paper round. I sent a note back to say that due to my mother's desertion I am still in a mental state. This is true. I wore odd socks yesterday without knowing it. One was red and one was green. I must pull myself together. I could end up in a lunatic asylum.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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I asked her about my Family Allowance today, she laughed and said she used it for buying gin and cigarettes.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
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My mother is now in the hospital 60 miles away, where they are treating her pneumonia. I refuse to feel guilty. Guilt is a destructive emotion and doesn't fit in with my Life Plan.
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Sue Townsend (The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 (Adrian Mole #7))
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It has just been on the news that a man has been found in the Queen’s bedroom. Radio Four said that the man was an intruder and was previously unknown to the Queen. My father said: ‘That’s her story.
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
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I am very unhappy and have once again turned to great literature for solace. 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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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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Why it is impossible to live in unclean house?
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Adrian Mole
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She is just straight all the way up and down, including her nose and mouth and hair.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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Just measured my thing. It has grown one centimetre. I might be needing it soon.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
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I’ve been a bit worried about my maleness lately, somewhere along the line I seem to have picked up too many female hormones.
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Sue Townsend (The True Confessions of Adrian Mole)
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I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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Had a long talk with Mr Vann the Careers teacher today. He said that if I want to be a vet I will have to do Physics, Chemistry and Biology for O level. He said that Art, Woodwork and Domestic Science won’t do much good. I am at the Crossroads in my life. The wrong decision now could result in a tragic loss to the veterinary world. I am hopeless at science. 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.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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I think Jane Austen should write something a bit more modern.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
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Bernard patted his arm and said, ‘Hitesh, old flower, Christmas is exactly the same, it’s you who have changed.
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Adrian Mole #8))
Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
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He was standing very still with his arms folded, staring with poached egg eyes.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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I had my first wet dream!
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
Sue Townsend (The True Confessions of Adrian Mole)
Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
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Measured my ‘thing’. It was eleven centimetres.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
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My grandma let the dog out of the coal shed. She said my mother was cruel to lock it up. The dog was sick on the kitchen floor. My grandma locked it up again.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
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A. MOLE’S SCONES Ingredients 4 oz flour or metric equivalent 2 oz butter or metric equivalent 2 oz sugar or metric equivalent 1 egg (eggs are still only eggs) Method Beat up all the ingredients. Make a tin greasy, throw it all in. Turn oven to number 5. Wait until scones are higher than they were. Should be 12 minutes, but keep opening oven door every 30 seconds.
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Sue Townsend (The True Confessions of Adrian Mole)
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At four o’clock I had one of those rare moments of happiness that I will remember all my life. I was sitting in front of Grandma’s electric coal fire eating dripping toast and reading the News of the World. There was a good play on Radio Four about torturing in concentration camps. Grandma was asleep and the dog was being quiet. All at once I felt this dead good feeling. Perhaps I am turning religious. I think I have got it in me to be a Saint of some kind.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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In my opinion it is essential to get lost in a new city, that way you are forced to walk about and discover places at a proper, natural pace. But you must have the taxi fare home, and it helps if you can remember the name of your hotel.
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Sue Townsend (True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (Adrian Mole, #3))
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I remembered my resolution about helping the poor and ignorant today, so I took some of my old Beano annuals to a quite poor family who have moved into the next street. I know they are poor because they have only got a black and white telly. A boy answered the door. I explained why I had come. He looked at the annuals and said, ‘I’ve read ’em,’ and slammed the door in my face. So much for helping the poor!
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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Мужика белобрысого зовут Дункан Макинтош, а его партия называется “Пусть катятся, откуда пришли”. Этот Макинтош хочет всех из Британии насильно выгнать: черных, коричневых, желтых, красных, евреев, ирландцев, уэльсцев, шотландцев, кельтов и потомков норманнов. В общем, останутся только чистокровные блондинистые саксонцы, и больше никого. Мама высчитала, что если этот Макинтош к власти придет, то он и будет населением Британии.
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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He had a face like the north face of the Eiger by the time we’d got to the bit where the three wise men were reviled as capitalist pigs. He took Miss Elf into the showers and had a ‘Quiet Word’. We all heard every word he shouted. He said he wanted to see a traditional Nativity play, with a Tiny Tears doll playing Jesus and three wise men dressed in dressing gowns and tea towels. He threatened to cancel the play if Mary, alias Pandora, continued to go into simulated labour in the manger. This is typical of Scruton, he is nothing but a small-minded, provincial, sexually-inhibited fascist pig. How he rose to become a headmaster I do not know. He has been wearing the same hairy green suit for three years.
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Sue Townsend (The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾)
Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
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After what I seen today, I’ll never sleep again.
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6))
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poncy’, and the tea, saying it was ‘as weak as a sailor's arsehole’. Eventually,
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Sue Townsend (The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 (Adrian Mole #7))
Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
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said he ‘would rather go without’.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
Sue Townsend (The True Confessions of Adrian Mole)
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Rosie Germaine Mole.
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
Sue Townsend (The True Confessions of Adrian Mole)
Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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Hitesh, old flower, Christmas is exactly the same, it’s you
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Adrian Mole #8))
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I have a problem. I am an intellectual, but at the same time I am not very clever.
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Adrian Mole; Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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Us intellectuals keep anti-social hours. It does us good.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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My father wouldn’t give me a note excusing me from Games so I spent nearly all morning dressed in pyjamas diving into a swimming pool and picking up a brick from the bottom. I had a bath when I came home but I still smell of chlorine. I just don’t see the point of the above lesson. When I am grown up I am hardly going to walk along a river bank in my pyjamas, am I? And who would be stupid enough to dive into a river for a boring old brick? Bricks are lying around all over the place!
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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But I must say that I take my hat off to Sainsbury’s, they seem to attract a better class of person. I saw a vicar choosing toilet paper; he chose a four-roll pack of purple three-ply. He must have money to burn! He could have bought some shiny white and given the difference to the poor. What a hypocrite!
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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Lady Diana melted my heartstrings in her dirty white dress. She even helped an old man up the aisle. I thought it was very kind of her considering it was her wedding day. Loads of dead famous people were there. Nancy Reagan, Spike Milligan, Mark Phillips, etc., etc. The Queen looked a bit jealous. I expect it was because people weren’t looking at her for a change.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4)
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Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him … yet he chatted away with his mother. He would never have confessed to her how he suffered over these things and she only partly guessed.” D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole #1))
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У меня кошмарные проблемы с половой жизнью. Они сводятся к тому простому факту, что никакой половой жизни у меня нет. По крайней мере — с другим человеком
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4))
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Похоже, я схожу с ума: моя жизнь напоминает кино, и я в ней — простой зритель
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4))
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Что делать, если меня призовут сражаться за родину? Покрою ли я себя славой или обмочусь от страха при первых же раскатах вражеской канонанды?
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4))
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Ответ у меня готов сейчас, в три минуты первого ночи, но, очевидно, уже слишком поздно
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4))
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События в мире меня больше не интересуют. Я не могу никак повлиять на них, так чего ж суетиться?
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4))
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Уборная в вагоне неописуема. Тем не менее, я постараюсь ее описать. Я же романист, в конце концов. Представьте себе, что двадцать бизонов с расстройством желудка заперли в одной уборной на две недели. Теперь постарайтесь представить, что по полу пролегает открытая сточная канава. Добавьте сюда политзаключенного из ИРА, объявившего грязную забастовку и отказавшегося мыться. Нужного запаха можно добиться, откопав несколько разложившихся трупов, добавив парочку здоровых молодых скунсов — и тогда вы довольно близко подойдете к тому, на что похожа и чем пахнет уборная в этом вагоне
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4))
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Она вышла из квартиры, ни слова не сказав, но спина ее выглядела очень сердитой
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4))
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Трубку я положил со странной смесью восторга и ужаса. Верный признак скорой влюбленности
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6))
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Мистер Барвелл не может подойти к телефону, у него важное дело – приступ астмы из-за нового ковра, который положили на выходные
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6))
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Брак вовсе не похож на тюрьму! Женщины могут каждый день свободно выходить в магазин и вообще куда им надо, а многие даже на работу ходят
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4)
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Но у меня и друзей-то больше не осталось. Наверное, потому, что я интеллектуал. Все просто не знают, как ко мне подступиться
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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Внезапный удар по Аргентине будет нанесен ровно через полтора месяца
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole)
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Мама помешалась на переезде. Хочет продать дом, в котором я прожил всю свою жизнь! Говорит, что теперь нам нужно больше места “для ребенка”. Ну и дураки эти взрослые. Дети вообще места не занимают. Они же длиной всего двадцать один дюйм
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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Лично я с сексом решил завязать. От него никакого проку, одни неприятности, особенно для женщин
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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Без облагораживающего женского влияния мы, мужчины, мигом в дикарей превращаемся
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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Отец что-то там булькал про девочку, которой у него еще не было. Выспрашивал, какая она. Я честно сказал, что дочка вся в него. Наполовину лысая и жутко злобная
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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В моих ушах звучал мерный стук ее тяжелых ботинок, когда она на цыпочках шла к двери и спускалась по лестнице
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Sue Townsend (True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (Adrian Mole, #3))
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Ничего не меняется в этом мире. Богатые по-прежнему снимают сливки, а бедным достаются все шишки
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Sue Townsend (True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (Adrian Mole, #3))
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Жаль, что я не родился в СССР, где проблемы выбора не существовало
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6))
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Хоть бы один нормальный взрослый нашелся. Все придурочные. То на Ближнем Востоке грызутся, то пудельков своих наряжают как на маскарад, то замораживаются, чтобы через сто лет молодыми проснуться
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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Вечером первый раз сам сменил подгузник. Завтра попробую сделать то же самое, но с открытыми глазами
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))
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Определенно, алкоголь — опасный наркотик в неумелых руках
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (Adrian Mole #4))
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Я страстно желаю наступления того дня, когда проснусь утром и пойму — аллилуйя! Я тоже верю в Бога!
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Ты что, работаешь водителем фургона? Я думал, ты голубой
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Не могу вспомнить, когда в последний раз ощущал тепло обнаженного тела. 3 часа ночи. Вспомнил. В прошлое воскресенье. Новый Пес сидел у меня на коленях, когда я читал Уильяму сказки братьев Гримм
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Решил дать обед целомудрия. По моему глубочайшему убеждению, роль секса весьма преувеличена. Все совершается за несколько минут и определенно не стоит предшествующих мучений и суеты
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Выходные провел в непрестанных трудах. В стирке, глажке, складывании и укладывании одежды. В мытье, сушке, укладывании посуды! В пылесошении полов! В бесконечном стирании пыли! В постоянном приготовлении пищи! Мне нужна женщина, чтобы делать все это за меня. Женщина, которой не нужно платить. Жена
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Воспитанный человек мочится, испражняется и выпивает чашку кофе до того, как выйдет из дома
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6))
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В который уже раз поразился ее сходству со свиньей. Нет, она много, много привлекательнее свиньи, но ее приплюснутый нос, отвисшие мочки ушей и поросячьи глазки явно свидетельствуют, что когда-то на какой-то древней ферме люди и звери вступали в непростые отношения
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6))
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По-моему, отпуск – полная фигня. Зачем куда-то ехать? Выпить везде можно
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6))
Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾)
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Я чуть не оплошал, ошибочно приняв одну инсталляцию за мужской туалет. По счастью, осознал ошибку прежде, чем полностью расстегнул молнию на брюках
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Иногда я жалею, что не живу в дофеминистские времена, когда мужчину, полощущего под краном чайную ложку, именовали «большим оригиналом». Отличные, наверное, были времена, когда всю работу делали женщины, а мужчины бездельничали, почитывая газеты
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Слава Богу, все закончилось, осталось пережить только Новый Год
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Сегодня в три часа дня к нашему дому подъехала полицейская патрульная машина. К двери подошел полицейский и сказал: — Вам известно, сэр, что у вас на крыше чернокожий мужчина? Я ответил: — Да, знаю. Я плачу ему за это 20 фунтов в час
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Adrian Mole, #5))
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Сегодня мне исполняется тридцать пять. Я официально вступил в период среднего возраста. Теперь дорога только под уклон. Скорбное скольжение навстречу пародонтозу, пандусам для инвалидов и смерти
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Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Adrian Mole #6))
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I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I’m all right at the moment, but you never know.
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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I hadn’t actually tasted whisky before and I never will again. How people can drink it for pleasure I don’t know. If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink!
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Sue Townsend (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian Mole, #1))
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Reasons for not living: You die anyway. Life is nothing but anguish. There is to much cruelty in the world. Reasons for living: Things might get better.
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Sue Townsend (The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (Adrian Mole, #2))