"How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected."

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Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Margaret Drabble

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“Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.101, New Directions Publishing
“Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good”
“It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!”

Source : A Man for All Seasons act 2 (1960). Ellipsis in original text. See Bible 278
“The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.”
“The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.”
“If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.”
“I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.”
“Unrequited loveâ€“plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasingâ€“turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.”

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