Doris Lessing Quotes
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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Spanglish is a creative way also of saying, 'I am an American, and I have my own style, my own taste, my own tongue.'
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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
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I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
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If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn't hurt it's probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don't really love Him, and they don't really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it's also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it's like everything else that is really wonderful, there's a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
