Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image ““There's something here that I simply will not let myself look at.”” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.” — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
“I could never resist the temptation of having a look at something that doesn't exist.” — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
“You can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You can’t seem to keep your eyes in one place. I can tell that you’re paying attention, but you seem to be looking for… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“When something looks enough like something else that people watching don't know what it is they're looking at.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“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… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
