Doris Lessing ,quotes

For the last third of life th...

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

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I wanted to write about my mo...

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

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It is the mark of great peopl...

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

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I think kids ought to travel....

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.

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What society doesn't realize ...

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

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If a fish is the movement of ...

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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There is only one real sin an...

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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That is what learning is. You...

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

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I do not think that marriage ...

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

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There's an unconscious bias i...

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

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I'm just a story teller. ...

I'm just a story teller.

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The human race has been telli...

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

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With a library you are free, ...

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

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I got married and I had child...

I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

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I have a daughter and two gra...

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

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The great secret that all old...

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

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I don't know much about creat...

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

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It's amazing what you find ou...

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

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There is nothing more boring ...

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

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Small things amuse small mind...

Small things amuse small minds.

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