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The old watch the young with ...

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

I think people are always loo...

I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Advice to young writers? Alwa...

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

When old settlers say 'One ha...

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.' They are saying in effect, 'Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we don't want you.'

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Loneliness, she thought, was ...

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

A woman without a man cannot ...

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

The words of a wise man's mou...

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

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for real pleasure a pleasure ...

for real pleasure a pleasure resort should have no one in it but its legitimate inhabitants, oneself, and perhaps one's friends.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

For women like me, integrity ...

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

What I did have, which others...

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

Her own contempt for any form...

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

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...or like an old friend one ...

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

As the fishes that are taken ...

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

You have to deduce a person's...

You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.

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My major aim was to shape a b...

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

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Because I was permanently con...

Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

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The art of living in a small ...

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

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Nonsense, it was all nonsense...

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

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Charity has always been a exp...

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

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So a war begins. Into a peace...

So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off quietly to prison. And for some time, days, months, a year perhaps, life has a peace-time quality, into which war-like events intrude. But when a war has been going on for a long time, life is all war, every event has the quality of war, nothing of peace remains.

Doris Lessing 352 quotes

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