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> [There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/there-is-only-one-way-to-read-which-is-to-browse-in-libraries-and-2/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

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> [Don't read a book out of its right time for you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/don-t-read-a-book-out-of-its-right-time-for-you/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

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> [There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/there-is-only-one-way-to-read-which-is-to-browse-in-libraries-and-3/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

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## More by Doris Lessing

> [Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/some-books-are-not-read-in-the-right-way-because-they-have-skipped-a/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/in-the-morning-when-she-wishes-me-to-wake-she-crouches-on-my-chest/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/you-know-whenever-women-make-imaginary-female-kingdoms-in-literature/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/there-is-only-one-real-sin-and-that-is-to-persuade-oneself-that-the/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/she-was-using-the-water-as-she-had-used-the-fruit-earlier-to-calm/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/i-remember-world-war-ii-when-there-were-very-few-books-very-little/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/they-can-t-give-a-nobel-to-someone-who-s-dead-so-i-think-they-were/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/while-she-strode-rapidly-through-the-ward-to-the-door-at-the-other/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/i-do-not-think-that-marriage-is-one-of-my-talents-i-ve-been-much/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [I haven't got the energy to write now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/i-haven-t-got-the-energy-to-write-now/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/what-really-fascinates-me-is-this-need-that-is-so-strong-now-that-if/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/the-charge-that-the-united-nations-are-using-bacteriological-warfare/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/what-i-did-have-which-others-perhaps-didn-t-was-a-capacity-for/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/the-human-community-is-evolving-we-can-survive-anything-you-care-to/)

[Doris Lessing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/doris-lessing/)

> [So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/doris-lessing/so-love-is-rest-the-cosy-corner-the-little-nook-sometimes-it-ought-to/)

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