"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."

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Source : Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

Sue Townsend

#Father Quotes #Hands Quotes #Hair Quotes

“Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.”
“I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.”
“May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.”
“They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.”
“We need to be free if we are to love.”
“Swimming is probably my main conditioning. It gives you a full-body workout. It builds endurance, builds your lungs strong, I mean you name it. And I like that the older you get, you try to find different ways to train besides just pounding and running every day.”
“A play visibly represents pure existing.”
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

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