"Space or science fiction has become a dialect…" — Doris Lessing
"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."
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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 Dialect Quotes
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one of 72 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations,…
— Virginia Heffernan
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Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy
— Robin Tunney
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When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when…
— Glenn Quinn
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Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."
— Harry Reid
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(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential…
— Harry Reid
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
— Rudyard Kipling
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America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.
— Mitch McConnell
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Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing…
— David Finkelstein
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