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> [I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/i-d-rather-be-at-the-end-of-a-dying-tradition-which-i-admire-than-at/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

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## More by Margaret Drabble

> [“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/fresh-newsprint-good-coffee-assorted-texts-some-messages-on-her/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [When nothing is sure, everything is possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/when-nothing-is-sure-everything-is-possible/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/the-middle-years-caught-between-children-and-parents-free-of-neither/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/sometimes-it-seems-the-only-accomplishment-my-education-ever-bestowed/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/i-confidently-predict-the-collapse-of-capitalism-and-the-beginning-of/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [“Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/minor-talents-or-failing-talents-ask-much-of-those-who-associate-with/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/how-unjust-life-is-to-make-physical-charm-so-immediately-apparent-or/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/world-war-ii-put-feminism-on-hold-for-a-long-time-the-men-went-away/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [Scenery can be a violent stimulant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/scenery-can-be-a-violent-stimulant/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [“Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/doing-a-jigsaw-was-not-an-intelligence-test-or-a-personality/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/how-extraordinary-people-are-that-they-get-themselves-into-such/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/nothing-succeeds-they-say-like-success-and-certainly-nothing-fails/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [“I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/i-don-t-see-how-you-can-go-too-far-in-the-right-direction/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/some-of-what-we-read-in-classical-literature-is-not-relative-to-our/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

> [“The dining area of the Premier Inn is geared to dispel elderly apprehensions, not to reinforce them. It is noisy and colourful and full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-drabble/the-dining-area-of-the-premier-inn-is-geared-to-dispel-elderly/)

[Margaret Drabble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-drabble/)

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