"I'd rather be at the end of a……" — Margaret Drabble
"I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore."
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Margaret Drabble
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25 Quotes by Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble has 25 quotes on this site.
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Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who…
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
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Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely…
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There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote…
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My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like…
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And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying…
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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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Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.
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A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a…
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Nothing fails like failure
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Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?
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Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother,…
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way…
— Richard Bach
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther…
— Dennis C. Blair
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
— David Bowie
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it…
— Samuel Butler
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