And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.
Doris Lessing
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing
Better Counsel comes overnight.
Doris Lessing
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Doris Lessing
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
Doris Lessing
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
Doris Lessing
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Doris Lessing
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Doris Lessing
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
Doris Lessing
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing
What is a hero without love for mankind.
Doris Lessing
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Doris Lessing
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Type:
Writer
Date of Birth:
1919-10-22
Year of Death:
Nationality:
English |
