"Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on……" — Doris Lessing
"Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right."
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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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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.…
— Bill Tilden
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Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room…
— Bill Maher
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On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher…
— Mike Modano
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The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.
— Anna Wintour
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
— Cornelia Funke
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But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her…
— Judy Woodruff
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Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it…
— Ann Coulter
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband.…
— Hanif Kureishi
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
— Alexander Pope
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The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums;…
— Sue Margolis
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Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna…
— Alexander Chee
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