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Only Quotes by Doris Lessing
- You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their…
- 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…
- This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy…
- 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…
- The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any…
- 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…
- 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
- When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so reduced,…
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