"Laughter is by definition healthy." — Doris Lessing
"Laughter is by definition healthy."
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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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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a…
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I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor…
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I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every…
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I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the…
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
— James A. Baldwin
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
— Alan Bennett
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad…
— Wendell Berry
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
— Donald Berwick
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
— Annie Besant
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
— Neal Boortz
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