"Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are……" — Doris Lessing

"Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start."

— 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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