Doris Lessing Quotes & Quotations

Doris Lessing Quotes

» Better Counsel comes overnight.

» What is a hero without love for mankind.

» The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

» Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

» Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

» If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

» In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

» 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.

» What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

» Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

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