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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. - Doris Lessing Quotes

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

English Writer Fiction

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. - Doris Lessing Quotes

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself - Doris Lessing Quotes

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Borrowing English Writer

Better Counsel comes overnight. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Better Counsel comes overnight.

Laughter is by definition healthy - Doris Lessing Quotes

Laughter is by definition healthy

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. - Doris Lessing Quotes

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools - Doris Lessing Quotes

In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools

Law

Small things amuse small minds. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Small things amuse small minds.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. - Doris Lessing Quotes

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! - Doris Lessing Quotes

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing Quotes

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

English Writer Learning

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best - Doris Lessing Quotes

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best

Sin

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. - Doris Lessing Quotes

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Pearls mean tears. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Pearls mean tears.

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. - Doris Lessing Quotes

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

Political Correctness

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing - Doris Lessing Quotes

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. - Doris Lessing Quotes

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Literature is analysis after the event. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Literature is analysis after the event.

English Writer Literature

What matters most is that we learn from living - Doris Lessing Quotes

What matters most is that we learn from living

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

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. - Doris Lessing Quotes

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.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. - Doris Lessing Quotes

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. - Doris Lessing Quotes

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. - Doris Lessing Quotes

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. - Doris Lessing Quotes

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. - Doris Lessing Quotes

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

What is a hero without love for mankind. - Doris Lessing Quotes

What is a hero without love for mankind.

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. - Doris Lessing Quotes

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.

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 Quotes

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. . . . You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. - Doris Lessing Quotes

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. . . . You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

Time Bites: Views and Reviews - Doris Lessing Quotes

Time Bites: Views and Reviews

It would be better, perhaps, if [these authors] wrote books about their lives as they really saw them and not these helpless girls, drunken, worrying about their weight and so on. - Doris Lessing Quotes

It would be better, perhaps, if [these authors] wrote books about their lives as they really saw them and not these helpless girls, drunken, worrying about their weight and so on.

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become. - Doris Lessing Quotes

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. - Doris Lessing Quotes

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. - Doris Lessing Quotes

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

American Historian English Writer

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. - Doris Lessing Quotes

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Laughter is by definition healthy. - Doris Lessing Quotes

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! - Doris Lessing Quotes

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. - Doris Lessing Quotes

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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