Doris Lessing Quotes
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
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The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeated all things.
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I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
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I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.
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I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.
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There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis. If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.
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I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
