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Sentimentality is intolerable...

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Whenever I met anyone who kne...

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

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I do not think writers ought ...

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.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I remember World War II when ...

I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I think a writer's job is to ...

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I hate Iran. I hate the Irani...

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I would not be at all surpris...

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

What really fascinates me is ...

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I see every book as a problem...

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

As soon as I got the Nobel Pr...

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I've worked hard all my life....

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Men are restless, adventurous...

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

We spend our lives fighting t...

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

You have to be grown up, real...

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Envy has always hidden behind...

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

This is a time when it is fri...

This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen but that--a descent into barbarism, everywhere, which we are unable to check. But I think that while it is true there is a general worsening, it is precisely because things are so frightening we become hypnotized, and do not notice--or if we notice, belittle--equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of reason, sanity and civilization.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Do you know what people reall...

Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

If what we think now is diffe...

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Advice to young writers? Alwa...

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Humanity's legacy of stories ...

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

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