Frases de Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble é uma escritora britânica.

✵ 5. Junho 1939
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The Middle Ground
Margaret Drabble
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Margaret Drabble Frases famosas

“Quando nada é certo, tudo é possível.”

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
"The Middle Ground: a novel"; Por Margaret Drabble; Publicado por Knopf, 1980; ISBN 0394512243, 9780394512242; 277 páginas

“A mente humana pode suportar muita realidade, mas não demasiado intermitente melancolia.”

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
"The Realms of Gold: Margaret Drabble. 1st American Ed" - Página 133; de Margaret Drabble - Publicado por Knopf, 1975; ISBN 0394498771, 9780394498775; 354 páginas

“Estou confiante em prever o colapso do capitalismo e do início da história. Algo vai mal na máquina que converte dinheiro em dinheiro, o sistema bancário entrará em colapso total, e vamos ter que fazer permuta de permanecer vivos.”

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive.
Guardian (Londres, 2 de janeiro de 1993) http://education.yahoo.com/reference/quotations/quote/27836;_ylt=ApShIkapht6irznY.FsMACRRCc0F

Margaret Drabble: Frases em inglês

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”

Margaret Drabble livro A Summer Bird-Cage

A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: William Morrow, 1964) p. 120

“The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.”

The Realms of Gold (1975; New York: Ivy Books, 1989) p. 140

“How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.”

Margaret Drabble livro A Summer Bird-Cage

A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: Popular Library, 1977) p. 28 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q43gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22How+unjust+life+is+to+make+physical+charm+so+immediately+apparent+or+absent+when+one+can+get+away+with+vices+untold+for+ever%22&pg=PA28#v=onepage

“Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.”

Margaret Drabble livro A Summer Bird-Cage

A Summer Bird-Cage (1963; New York: William Morrow, 1964) p. 49