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Doris Lessing has 203 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
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The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.
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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore…
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I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I…
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Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck…
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Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
— Doris Lessing
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They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on…
— Cormac McCarthy
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If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, A, they're not going to believe…
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Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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