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You Quotes by Doris Lessing
- Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
- It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
- With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no…
- 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…
- In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
- 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…
- The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
- 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,…
- You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all…
- 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…
- When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide