The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. Doris Lessing More Quotes by Doris Lessing More Quotes From Doris Lessing Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. Doris Lessing betrayed mirrors art Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you. Doris Lessing bores-you doors book Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want. Doris Lessing chance want play Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot. Doris Lessing emotion giving way How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to. Doris Lessing emotion matter want I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. Doris Lessing writing animal way If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs. Doris Lessing one-day dog people 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. Doris Lessing party reality people What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head. Doris Lessing cat lonely eye I think I am at the end of a certain phase of my life. What I'm on the lookout for now is the unexpected, for things that come from outside and that I never thought might happen. Sometimes you have to watch for them so you don't automatically say no to the new, simply because you're in the habit of saying no to everything that comes along. Doris Lessing phases watches thinking All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh. Doris Lessing knowing happiness moving Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked. Doris Lessing overlooked facts All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not. Doris Lessing ecclesiastes wicked events The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. Doris Lessing tolerable superstitions worst It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative. Doris Lessing phoenix hurt dream If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point. Doris Lessing ifs practice knows Better Counsel comes overnight. Doris Lessing None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it. Doris Lessing motivational men long Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion. Doris Lessing oblivion literature rivers The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. Doris Lessing labels critics term
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