"What really fascinates me is this need that……" — Doris Lessing
"What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula."
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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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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations…
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The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were…
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It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I…
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This idea fascinates me. The idea that a few seconds of watching a photographer in action can tell you his/her…
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If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from…
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The masculine/feminine look fascinates me. It is not only an issue of empowering women, but I think the shapes look…
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Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates…
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You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It…
— Agnes Bruckner
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In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and…
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'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
— Brian Koppelman
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