Doris Lessing Quotes
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Quotes to Explore
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I'm a proud family man.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.
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Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
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It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.
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I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.
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I'm sure they will have more sequels for 'Tarzan' where he goes to England, school, and whatever else they can think of. It's a natural that they will continue the series.
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In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
