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Margaret Drabble Quotes

Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
English Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 5, 1939
Nationality:
English
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Mark Haddon

 
And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Margaret Drabble

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble

Nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble

Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret Drabble

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble


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