Duvets Quotes

• Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

  Sue Townsend

  Thinking, Long, Pieces

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• I love to snuggle up on the sofa wrapped in my duvet watching old black and white films, and catching up with friends and family on the phone.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Family, Black And White, Phones

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• Being homeless is awful, but if you've ever tried to wrestle a duvet cover back onto a comforter you realise it's not without it's benefits.

  Dov Davidoff

  Benefits, Awful, Homeless

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 19, 2011

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• I am good in bed - I don't snore. I don't take the duvet. I just lay there and go straight off to sleep. That's all you want out of a bloke.

  Len Goodman

  Sleep, Bed, Want

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• You can go to the gym, lift as many weights as you want, but if you can't bench press your duvet at fajr then it doesn't mean anything

  Khalid Yasin

  Mean, Weight, Benches

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• They sold me a duvet cover, and I don't have a duvet, I don't think. Then, they started treating me like I'm the idiot. They're like, 'Do you have a comforter?' 'Yeah.' 'Well, you have to protect it!' I had no idea it was under attack.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Thinking, Ideas, Idiot

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• Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.

  Naoki Higashida

  Beautiful, Memories, Night

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• I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Independent, African Tribes

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.25, Villard

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• Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?' 'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself. 'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hug, Consideration, Should

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