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One Quotes by Doris Lessing
- When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.'…
- One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
- I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
- And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You…
- It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.…
- The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
- With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no…
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
- I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
- September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and,…
- There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping…
- ...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
- If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she…
- At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing…
- 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…
- Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
- There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare