Doris Lessing Quotes
My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped. As I have said, this was not noticed
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.
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Do you ever leave a message for somebody and the answering machine cuts you off, and you have to decide whether you should not call back, or call back and appear like a stalker? "Hi. It's me again. I forgot to tell you that I'm going to kill you. Because I'm the freak who keeps calling and calling."
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My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped. As I have said, this was not noticed
