Doris Lessing Quotes
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
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It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
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I have ideas that I will probably never write now.
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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.
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When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
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They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then I won't have to write it.
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We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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I never stopped reading.
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The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.