"A story is how we construct our experiences." — Doris Lessing
"A story is how we construct our experiences."
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Doris Lessing
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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist:…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was…
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More Construct Quotes
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the…
— Bill Bryson
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
— John Burns
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Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you…
— Luigi Pirandello
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To…
— Pete Wilson
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
— Epictetus
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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest,…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of…
— Cesar Chavez
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to…
— Ronald Reagan
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model…
— John von Neumann
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