Margaret Drabble Quotes

• England’s not a bad country… It’s just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons.

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• Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

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• What fools middle-class girls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

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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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• Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

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• I need words and print… I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

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• When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

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

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

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

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• Nothing fails like failure.

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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 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.

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

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Margaret Drabble (13)

Birth:	5th June, 1939
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Biographer, Critic, Novelist

About

Drabble was born in Sheffield, the second daughter of the advocate and novelist John F. Drabble and the teacher Kathleen Marie. Her older sister is the novelist and critic Dame Antonia Byatt; their younger sister is the art historian Helen Langdon, and their brother, Richard Drabble, is a QC.

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