"There are some writers who wrote too much.……" — Margaret Drabble
"There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy their admirers, and Jane Austen is certainly one of these."
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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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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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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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When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of…
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what…
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I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade…
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I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a…
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Haters are just confused admirers.
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Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he…
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Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the…
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my…
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Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly…
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