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born 1939 England
Dame Margaret Drabble DBE (born 5 June 1939) is an English novelist, biographer and literary critic.
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
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.
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.
Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.
As children, she and Shirley had hated Christmas, for it had marked them out for the lepers that they were: outcasts, treeless, without kin, without comfort, without presents, without past. She preferred the densely populated world she had created, with all its problems.