"For she was of that generation who, having……" — Doris Lessing
"For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature."
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Doris Lessing
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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing has 201 quotes on this site.
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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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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and…
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as…
— Saint Basil
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
— William Blake
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I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its…
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a…
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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it…
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
— Lord Byron
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the…
— Kirk Cameron
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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