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On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.
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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
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I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
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Faces, they have, those suburban people, faces and identity, despite their mortgages and their alarms: and there are few emotions more ignoble, more contemptible, than the terror that seizes such as myself when we drive, quickly, past their net curtained windows.
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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.
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Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Margaret Drabble
Born:
June 5, 1939
(age 84)
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Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic.
Known for:
The Millstone (1965)
The Pure Gold Baby (2013)
A Summer Bird-Cage (1962)
The Needle's Eye (1972)
The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1932)
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