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Margaret Drabble

"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

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"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."

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"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation."

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"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

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"After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much."

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

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"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

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"What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."

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"The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it."
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