"This world is run by people who know……" — Doris Lessing
"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
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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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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who…
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You've got to be stupid to heckle me - I am very equipped to win.
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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're…
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The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true,…
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a…
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Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching…
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Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely
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The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.
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My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether…
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Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having…
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Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is…
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