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Work Quotes by Doris Lessing
- Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
- For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when…
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and,…
- This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer…
- What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to…
- ...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…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson