Books Quote by Doris Lessing

“My biggest issue with religion is that most seemed formed to preclude the idea of other ideas and similar to politics its built to…

— Thomas Edward Savage

“Religion, whether we like it or not, is intimately tied to the culture in which it exists. One can argue—with only varying degrees of…

— Phyllis Tickle

“I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time…

— Lena Horne

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

— Edward Norton

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents,…

— Doris Lessing

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

— Doris Lessing

The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not…

— Doris Lessing

You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous…

— Doris Lessing

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has…

— Soren Kierkegaard

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of…

— Hannah Arendt

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

— Walter Rauschenbusch