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Some Quotes by Doris Lessing
- I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
- I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind…
- Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
- It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write…
- What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen.…
- I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps…
- Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
- Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
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