The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
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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
The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.
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
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
Margaret Drabble
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