Magdalen Nabb quotes

Magdalen Nabb quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.”
-- Magdalen Nabb

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“What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?”
-- Magdalen Nabb

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“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”
“The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.”
“Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.”
“A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.”
“Even if you forget thatÂ´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you canÂ´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.”
“In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.”

Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”
“Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.”
“Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.”

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