Doris Lessing Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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I love India.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
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They just talk drivel. Whoever is winning is great, whoever isn't, isn't. It's banal. And also semi-literate at times ... they never criticise in an intelligent way. Anything that isn't banal is said to be an outburst. They've created this cartoon world where everyone talks like Lineker and says nothing.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
