"Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling." — Doris Lessing
"Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling."
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Doris Lessing
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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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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never…
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it…
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I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask…
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
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A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of…
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It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and…
— John Belushi
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
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