Famous Quotes / Doris Lessing
35 Quotations by Doris Lessing
- 1. A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
- 2. All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to s ...
- 3. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a ...
- 4. Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given ...
- 5. Better Counsel comes overnight.
- 6. Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than ste ...
- 7. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't t ...
- 8. If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtl ...
- 9. In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
- 10. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- 11. It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abst ...
- 12. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
- 13. Laughter is by definition healthy.
- 14. Literature is analysis after the event.
- 15. Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
- 16. Pearls mean tears.
- 17. Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is ...
- 18. Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
- 19. Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
- 20. Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.