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Way Quotes by Doris Lessing
- Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
- You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way…
- I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
- I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.
- Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of…
- 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…
- Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are…
- 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…
- I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
- Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
- 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…
- ...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the…
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