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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
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
What is a hero without love for mankind.
— Doris Lessing
If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
— Doris Lessing
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.
— Doris Lessing
When there's a war, people get married.
— Doris Lessing
I haven't got the energy to write now.
— Doris Lessing
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
— Doris Lessing
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
— Doris Lessing
Laughter is by definition healthy.
— Doris Lessing
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
— Doris Lessing
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
— Doris Lessing
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
— Doris Lessing
You can only value something if you've experienced it.
— Doris Lessing
The thing is, I haven't changed at all.
— Doris Lessing
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
— Doris Lessing
Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien.
— Doris Lessing
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
— Doris Lessing
I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
— Doris Lessing
It seems to me that ideas must flow through humanity like tides.
— Doris Lessing