"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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Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Margaret Drabble

#Book Quotes #Teaching Quotes #People Quotes

“This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud.”
“My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.”
“These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.”
“99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her (-Oh, thank you!).”
“People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.”
“I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.”
“... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.”
“Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oÆ’ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”

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