if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand. Doris Lessing More Quotes by Doris Lessing More Quotes From Doris Lessing Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough. Doris Lessing dark sleep memories It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. Doris Lessing priorities important people My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. Doris Lessing rage father Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape. Doris Lessing landscape giving men I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. Doris Lessing let-me worry war For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. Doris Lessing lasts age work Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be. Doris Lessing exploitation profit giving There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them. Doris Lessing women lines past So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is. Doris Lessing littles love-is sometimes It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. Doris Lessing lovely winning giving The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed. Doris Lessing difficulty writing sex You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people, living, events present themselves to you with the immediacy of players in some barbarous and splendid drama that it seems we are part of. You have been given new eyes. Doris Lessing eye taken drama For there is never any way to go but in. Doris Lessing way The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid. Doris Lessing devil stupid believe I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. Doris Lessing alternatives focus numbers The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars. Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in. Doris Lessing filled-up stars men Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. Doris Lessing legacy humanity song Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat. Doris Lessing cat paws owl The first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who used to meet once a week with the sole purpose of analyzing the news and trying to work out what we weren't being told. We thought that we were clever, but we had absolutely no idea what was really going on. It was only years later that we learned the true story. Doris Lessing clever war people People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. Doris Lessing mind people thinking
