"I'm not one of those writers that sits……" — Doris Lessing
"I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame."
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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 Fame Quotes
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you…
— Francis Bacon
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some…
— Kevin Bacon
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame…
— Lloyd Banks
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
— Tyra Banks
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone…
— George Matthew Adams
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
— Brigitte Bardot
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