Addict Quote by Margaret Drabble

“I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.”

Margaret Drabble

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“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?”

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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

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The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future…

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Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.

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I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money,…

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“Minor talents or failing talents ask much of those who associate with them. They suck, they cling, they sour, they devour, and they can…

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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

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World War II put feminism on hold for a long time; the men went away to fight, a lot of women in those years…

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Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

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“Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation…

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How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need…

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Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

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