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Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
Margaret Drabble
Success
Failure
Nothing
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
Mind
Reality
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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Society
Body
End
Guilt
Saying
Nothing fails like failure.
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Failure
Nothing
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
Nothing
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
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Being
Misery
Pleasure
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble
Family
Life
Choices