Doris Lessing Quotes
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.
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Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.
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When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
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He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.
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We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.
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All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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He wanted me to know what he had done. First of all, he said he committed a violation. Secondly, he gave the money to a prospective student-athlete.
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We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
