"The human mind can bear plenty of reality……" — Margaret Drabble
"The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom."
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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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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a…
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
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