Despise Quote by Doris Lessing

“there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.”

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“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I am on my side, she crouches looking into my face. Soft, soft touches of her paw. I open my eyes, say I don't want to wake. I close my eyes. Cat gently pats my eyelids. Cat…

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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all the time she was thinking: I’m right off balance. I feel as if the atmosphere of this flat were being poisoned, as if a spirit of perverse and ugly spite were everywhere. Yet it’s nonsense. The…

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“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot held an infant or a small child in whom the human template had been wrenched out of pattern, sometimes horribly, sometimes slightly. A baby like a comma, great lolling head on a stalk of a body...…

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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

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I haven't got the energy to write now.

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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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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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