Events Quotes by Doris Lessing

8 Events quotes by Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing’s eight observations on events capture her keen narrative eye in a compact form. This brief set provides a quick, literary glimpse into her perspective on life’s unfolding scenes.

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All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to…

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So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off…

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On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't…

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After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts,…

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You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people,…

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Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a…

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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this…

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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later,…

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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…

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“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot…

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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

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I haven't got the energy to write now.

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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have…

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“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.”

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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…

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The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even…

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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

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