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Doris Lessing Quotes

Humanity’s legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences Picture Quote #1

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself Picture Quote #1

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be Picture Quote #1

This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes Picture Quote #1

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows Picture Quote #1

We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate Picture Quote #1

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you’ve written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won’t have to write it Picture Quote #1

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young Picture Quote #1

It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later Picture Quote #1

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like Picture Quote #1

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid Picture Quote #1

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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever Picture Quote #1

If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again Picture Quote #1

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place Picture Quote #1

You have to deduce a person’s real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth’s corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs Picture Quote #1

I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us Picture Quote #1

Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter Picture Quote #1

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All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not Picture Quote #1

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them Picture Quote #1

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed Picture Quote #1

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is Picture Quote #1

Women have an extraordinary ability to withdraw from the sexual relationship, to immunize themselves against it, in such a way that their men can be left feeling let down and insulted without having anything tangible to complain of Picture Quote #1

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself Picture Quote #1

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Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all Picture Quote #1

It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults Picture Quote #1

We have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination Picture Quote #1

If you understand something, you don’t forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don’t understand Picture Quote #1

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents Picture Quote #1

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire Picture Quote #1

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Humanity’s legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences (Doris Lessing Quotes) People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself (Doris Lessing Quotes) Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be (Doris Lessing Quotes) This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes (Doris Lessing Quotes) What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows (Doris Lessing Quotes) We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate (Doris Lessing Quotes) We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known (Doris Lessing Quotes) Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you’ve written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won’t have to write it (Doris Lessing Quotes) I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young (Doris Lessing Quotes) It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later (Doris Lessing Quotes) We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like (Doris Lessing Quotes) The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid (Doris Lessing Quotes) At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever (Doris Lessing Quotes) If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again (Doris Lessing Quotes) Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place (Doris Lessing Quotes) You have to deduce a person’s real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth’s corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs (Doris Lessing Quotes) I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us (Doris Lessing Quotes) Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter (Doris Lessing Quotes) All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not (Doris Lessing Quotes) As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them (Doris Lessing Quotes) The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed (Doris Lessing Quotes) So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is (Doris Lessing Quotes) Women have an extraordinary ability to withdraw from the sexual relationship, to immunize themselves against it, in such a way that their men can be left feeling let down and insulted without having anything tangible to complain of (Doris Lessing Quotes) The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself (Doris Lessing Quotes) Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all (Doris Lessing Quotes) It is my belief that children are full of understanding and know as much as and more than adults, until they are about seven, when they suddenly become stupid, like adults (Doris Lessing Quotes) We have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination (Doris Lessing Quotes) If you understand something, you don’t forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don’t understand (Doris Lessing Quotes) You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents (Doris Lessing Quotes) The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire (Doris Lessing Quotes)

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