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Time Quotes by Doris Lessing
- Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
- 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 great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't…
- All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.
- Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
- There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
- 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…
- It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From…
- Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
- Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the…
- 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…
- 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…
- ...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use…
- Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
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