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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

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

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

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

We are several people fitted ...

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

It is very enjoyable, writing...

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

My father was always so mingl...

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

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

If you are a young writer tod...

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

God knows why nobody ever lea...

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

It is my belief that children...

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Parents should leave books ly...

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

A public library is the most ...

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

People are just cannibals unl...

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

All one's life as a young wom...

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

It has become a kind of relig...

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Words. Words. I play with wor...

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

When the print revolution occ...

When the print revolution occurred 400 years ago, human beings lost a certain mental capacity, including a sense of memory. In Africa today, you meet people who still carry everything in their heads, the way we used to. We rely on telephone books, address books. We have to look up everything.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

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