"Literature is analysis after the event." — Doris Lessing

"Literature is analysis after the event."

— Doris Lessing

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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing has 201 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to…
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat…
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I…
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist:…
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was…

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Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to… — Mary Kay Ash
There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' — Arthur Ashe
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to… — Bernard Baruch
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many… — Gary Becker
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for… — Tony Benn
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work… — Russell Brand
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in… — John O. Brennan
What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself. — Anita Brookner
Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example,… — Abdallah II
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? — David Byrne
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate… — Herman Cain

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