“Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.”
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Jilly Cooper is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels Rutshire Chronicles.
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“Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.”
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“At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.”
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“Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.”
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“And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.”
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“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.”
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“I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.”
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“If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.”
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“But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.”
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“I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.”
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“The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.”
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“For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.”
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