"The youth do not see the old. They……" — Doris Lessing
"The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out."
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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing has 201 quotes on this site.
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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 Cancelled Quotes
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously…
— George Orwell
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I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one…
— Michael Easton
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It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting…
— Virgil Goode
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He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Cancelled isn't a bad word because it happens everyday.
— Wayne Brady
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You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many…
— Martin Amis
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Iran welcomes dialogue with any other states. I wrote a letter to the three European states inviting them to resume…
— Ali Larijani
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Today's art has been cancelled due to police activity.
— Banksy
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Gears of War: Exile was an unannounced game that I can't give any details about that has since been cancelled.
— Cliff Bleszinski
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In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable…
— Octavius Winslow
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
— Illeana Douglas
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