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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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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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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.…
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the…
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce.…
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The foolhardy are not necessarily stupid, for fools simply follow their imagination whereas the stupid have none.
— Unknown Author
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It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill,…
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It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought…
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