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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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I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
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I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls…
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In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.
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Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it…
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We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And…
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I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in…
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If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
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Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.
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I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
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But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my…
— Anne Frank
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If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.
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