Doris Lessing Quotes
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.
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And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? - now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.
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You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.
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I remember being afraid of doing drag when I was younger because I didn't really like my feminine side - most gay guys at some point are told that that's the worst part of you, so that becomes a negative thing.
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Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.
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I'm compulsive.
