Doris Lessing Quotes

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they dont seem to see this.

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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

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Better Counsel comes overnight.

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What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

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And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.

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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. . . . You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

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Small things amuse small minds.

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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

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What is a hero without love for mankind.

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Pearls mean tears.

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It seems to me like this it's not a terrible thing I mean, it may be terrible, but it's not damaging, it's not poisoningto do without something one really wants.... What's really terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do, or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

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