Doris Lessing Short Quotes

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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

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Love lay like a mirage through the golden gates of sex.

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Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

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People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.

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Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

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Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

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If we were to put into practice what we know... but that is the point.

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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

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Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

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The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

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You want me to begin a novel with The two women were alone in the London flat?

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Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

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What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

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Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

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Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

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We have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

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People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination.

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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

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None of you [men] ask for anything—except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

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Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

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