« All Matched Quotes
·
Doris Lessing's Page
Matched Quotes by Doris Lessing
1 Matched quote by Doris Lessing
More Quotes by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing has 203 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
-
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
-
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
-
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
-
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
-
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
-
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.…
-
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the…
See all 203 quotes by Doris Lessing »
More Matched Quotes
Popular Matched quotes from across the collection:
-
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
— Seneca the Younger
-
Romney-Ryan is likely the best matched 'team' that has been on a national ticket in a very long time.
— Bob Beauprez
-
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority…
— Annie Besant
-
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know…
— Robert Browning
-
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat…
— Ban Ki-moon
-
Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make…
— Unknown Author
-
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal…
— Seneca the Younger
-
Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary…
— Ethan Hawke
See all Matched Quotes »
Browse Doris Lessing Quotes by Category