Doris Lessing ,quotes

My father was always so mingle...

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

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My father was in the First Wor...

My father was in the First World War.

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My mother died happily of a st...

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

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My mother was a woman who was ...

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

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Pleasure resorts are like film...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 352 quotes

September 11 was terrible but,...

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 03.03.2018 03:03:03 352 quotes

Space or science fiction has b...

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Doris Lessing 03.03.2018 03:03:03 352 quotes

The critics slap labels on you...

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

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The Nobel Prize is run by a se...

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.

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There is nothing more boring f...

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

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There was a time when young pe...

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing 03.03.2018 03:03:03 352 quotes

There's always this sense of i...

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

Doris Lessing 03.03.2018 03:03:03 352 quotes

They can't give a Nobel to som...

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.

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Time and distance from the fir...

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

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What the feminists want of me ...

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

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When there's a war, people get...

When there's a war, people get married.

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When young I did my best to un...

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

Doris Lessing 03.03.2018 03:03:03 352 quotes

Whenever I met anyone who knew...

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Doris Lessing 03.03.2018 03:03:03 352 quotes

I don't know much about creati...

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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I do not think writers ought e...

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

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