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Doris Lessing quotes: If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome! If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome!
Doris Lessing quotes: You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering. You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
Doris Lessing quotes: No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered. No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
Doris Lessing quotes: We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints. We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.
Doris Lessing quotes: What is a hero without love for mankind. What is a hero without love for mankind.
Doris Lessing quotes: There is absolutely nothing like love for showing how many different people can live inside one skin. There is absolutely nothing like love for showing how many different people can live inside one skin.
Doris Lessing quotes: A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man. A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
Doris Lessing quotes: The worst of a woman is that she expects you to make love to her, or to pretend to make love to her. - BARON CORVO The worst of a woman is that she expects you to make love to her, or to pretend to make love to her. - BARON CORVO
Doris Lessing quotes: I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement. I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
Doris Lessing quotes: You won't change her by making fun of her. You just hurt her feelings. You won't change her by making fun of her. You just hurt her feelings.
Doris Lessing quotes: How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to ... How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to ...
Doris Lessing quotes: If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing quotes: If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand. If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
Doris Lessing quotes: Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that. Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.
Doris Lessing quotes: I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can. I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
Doris Lessing quotes: Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape. Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
Doris Lessing quotes: At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever. At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
Doris Lessing quotes: We have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
Doris Lessing quotes: I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
Doris Lessing quotes: The human race has been telling stories since it began. The human race has been telling stories since it began.
Doris Lessing quotes: For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Doris Lessing quotes: Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked. Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
Doris Lessing quotes: I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
Doris Lessing quotes: Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others. Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.
Doris Lessing quotes: Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent. Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.
Doris Lessing quotes: For there is never any way to go but in. For there is never any way to go but in.
Doris Lessing quotes: I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic. I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
Doris Lessing quotes: Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see. Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
Doris Lessing quotes: It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart. It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
Doris Lessing quotes: You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so. You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
Doris Lessing quotes: I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.
Doris Lessing quotes: Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability? Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
Doris Lessing quotes: Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings. Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
Doris Lessing quotes: People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
Doris Lessing quotes: Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing quotes: What matters most is that we learn from living. What matters most is that we learn from living.
Doris Lessing quotes: Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights. Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.
Doris Lessing quotes: I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record, I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record,
Doris Lessing quotes: There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
Doris Lessing quotes: Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary! Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
Doris Lessing quotes: We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like. We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.
Doris Lessing quotes: A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity? A hundred things to do, but only one thing to be," he said, obstinately. "But perhaps I don't feel myself worthy of such a wealth of opportunity?
Doris Lessing quotes: I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
Doris Lessing quotes: My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
Doris Lessing quotes: You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
Doris Lessing quotes: Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing. Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.
Doris Lessing quotes: There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
Doris Lessing quotes: Writers do not come out of houses without books. Writers do not come out of houses without books.
Doris Lessing quotes: Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares ... Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares ...
Doris Lessing quotes: Now, I am not Anna, I have no will, I can't move out of a situation once it has started, I just go along with it. Now, I am not Anna, I have no will, I can't move out of a situation once it has started, I just go along with it.
Doris Lessing quotes: For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
Doris Lessing quotes: When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
Doris Lessing quotes: Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start. Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.
Doris Lessing quotes: In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing quotes: I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
Doris Lessing quotes: People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world." "-In Pursuit of Silence People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world."
"-In Pursuit of Silence
Doris Lessing quotes: Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Doris Lessing quotes: I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
Doris Lessing quotes: A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Doris Lessing quotes: There's something here that I simply will not let myself look at. There's something here that I simply will not let myself look at.
Doris Lessing quotes: I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Doris Lessing quotes: Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
Doris Lessing quotes: We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end. We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.
Doris Lessing quotes: Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
Doris Lessing quotes: There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Doris Lessing quotes: I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
Doris Lessing quotes: Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
Doris Lessing quotes: The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out. The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
Doris Lessing quotes: The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Doris Lessing quotes: Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
Doris Lessing quotes: Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
Doris Lessing quotes: I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents. I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
Doris Lessing quotes: Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty ... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty ... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
Doris Lessing quotes: Every child has the capacity to be everything. Every child has the capacity to be everything.
Doris Lessing quotes: I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Doris Lessing quotes: She wanted to be acknowledged, her predicament given its value. She wanted to be acknowledged, her predicament given its value.
Doris Lessing quotes: As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable. As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
Doris Lessing quotes: Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
Doris Lessing quotes: The thing is, I haven't changed at all. The thing is, I haven't changed at all.
Doris Lessing quotes: What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it. What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
Doris Lessing quotes: Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
Doris Lessing quotes: Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good. Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Doris Lessing quotes: They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
Doris Lessing quotes: There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
Doris Lessing quotes: September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
Doris Lessing quotes: I watched his face put on that mask of bluff, goodnatured tolerance which is the mask of corruption in this particular time (for I watched his face put on that mask of bluff, goodnatured tolerance which is the mask of corruption in this particular time (for
Doris Lessing quotes: A writer is the conscience of the world. A writer is the conscience of the world.
Doris Lessing quotes: The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
Doris Lessing quotes: I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase. I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
Doris Lessing quotes: I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
Doris Lessing quotes: Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
Doris Lessing quotes: You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
Doris Lessing quotes: That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing quotes: I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
Doris Lessing quotes: We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
Doris Lessing quotes: We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child. We have no children Harriet. Or, rather, I have no children. You have one child.
Doris Lessing quotes: Men are unwise and curiously planned. Men are unwise and curiously planned.
Doris Lessing quotes: As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul. As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.
Doris Lessing quotes: It's very interesting what you don't care about. It's very interesting what you don't care about.
Doris Lessing quotes: Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen? Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen?

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