"My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has……" — Margaret Drabble
"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 sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world,"
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Margaret Drabble
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25 Quotes by Margaret Drabble
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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…
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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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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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More Acid Quotes
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
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Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
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