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Margaret Drabble

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England's not a bad country. It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons.
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A Natural Curiosity (New York: Viking, 1989) p. 308

 
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