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Me Quotes by Doris Lessing
- And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the…
- I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
- It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
- My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my…
- They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before…
- What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
- Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
- What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to…
- Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by…
- Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I…
- For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I…
- I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale