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Jilly Cooper [1937-0] British
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Jilly Cooper OBE is an English author. She began 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 Rutshire Chronicles.

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For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. Funny
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Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
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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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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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I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows. Nature
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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 live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.
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You've simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether they'll be there tomorrow, do you?
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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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There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.
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I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.
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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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My own parents loved each other very much.
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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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I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
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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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I'd never have written the big books in London.
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It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
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I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
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I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
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But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
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I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.
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I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
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