QUOTES by Doris Lessing
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to...
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There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.
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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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