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Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn. - Margaret Drabble Quotes

Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.

Margaret Drabble

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

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

Margaret Drabble

English Novelist Misery

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

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

Margaret Drabble

Choices English Novelist

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. - Margaret Drabble Quotes

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

Margaret Drabble

English Novelist

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

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

Margaret Drabble

English Novelist Mind

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

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

Margaret Drabble

English Novelist Failure

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 Quotes

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

Body English Novelist

You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. - Margaret Drabble Quotes

You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.

Margaret Drabble

Nothing fails like failure - Margaret Drabble Quotes

Nothing fails like failure

Margaret Drabble

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg. - Margaret Drabble Quotes

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

Margaret Drabble

Twentieth Century

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