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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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A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god.…
— Jose Mujica
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My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was…
— John Hume
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In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
— Eugene Ionesco
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A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
— George S. Patton
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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
— Doris Lessing
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Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was…
— Mancur Olson
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It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant.
— Sargent Shriver
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To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few…
— Nicholas von Hoffman
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I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.
— Billy Joel
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the…
— Hanif Kureishi
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NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not…
— Mary Roach
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