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Out 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.'…
- The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
- I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
- It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
- There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in…
- 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…
- I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of…
- I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window.…
- Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise…
- 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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