In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
What matters most is that we learn from living. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
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. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
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. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
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. . . . You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
It would be better, perhaps, if [these authors] wrote books about their lives as they really saw them and not these helpless girls, drunken, worrying about their weight and so on. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become. Doris Lessing Persian Novelist More Doris Lessing Quotes 0