Margaret Drabble Quotes

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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.
• Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
• The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
• Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter…
• There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy…
• My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American…
• And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society…
• Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
• Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
• A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a man will kill her.
• Nothing fails like failure
• Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?
• Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die…
• I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the…
• Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
• I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another…
• I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.
• Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
• When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
• What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell…

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