We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like. Doris Lessing More Quotes by Doris Lessing More Quotes From Doris Lessing Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. Doris Lessing loneliness spirit people I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. Doris Lessing capes daughter two Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history. Doris Lessing taken beautiful years ...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures. Doris Lessing emotional intelligent men In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream. Doris Lessing dream sleep writing When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip. Doris Lessing white-man eye men If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. Doris Lessing indoctrination think-for-yourself thinking She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage. Doris Lessing girl self years Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money. Doris Lessing nonsense incredibles men I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing Doris Lessing words-mean-nothing vertigo mean What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it. Doris Lessing capacity He destroyed in her the knowing, doubting, sophisticated Ella, and again and again he put her intelligence to sleep, and with her willing connivance, so that she floated darkly on her love for him, on her naivety, which is another word for a spontaneous creative faith. And when his own distrust of himself destroyed this woman-in-love, so that she began thinking, she would fight to return to naivety. Doris Lessing fighting sleep thinking Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel. Doris Lessing perspective people needs Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them. Doris Lessing pressure might profound I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents. Doris Lessing parent kids thinking A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man. Doris Lessing age men thinking The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes. Doris Lessing eggplant garden summer I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess. Doris Lessing building dimensions way Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by 'tolerantly amused eyes' was years away from me. I don't think I really saw people then, except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understood, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young. Doris Lessing confused eye attitude Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. Doris Lessing coincidence spiritual way
