"What of October, that ambiguous month, the month……" — Doris Lessing
"What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?"
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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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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.
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The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If…
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Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools…
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Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ...…
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original…
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My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of…
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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous…
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The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from…
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In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad…
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you…
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
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