"Nothing fails like failure" — Margaret Drabble
"Nothing fails like failure"
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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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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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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 Failing Quotes
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel,…
— Michele Bachmann
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
— Lester Bangs
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High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when…
— Joseph Barbera
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
— Lord Acton
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