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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. Doris Lessing. Inspirational, Success, Opportunity. "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006. 46 Copy quote.
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"Doris Lessing: Hot Dawns". Interview with Harvey Blume,...
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Doris Lessing (2012). “On Cats”, p.51, HarperCollins UK “On...
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Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently:...
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Book by Doris Lessing (1962), Introduction, 1971 edition....
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- “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
- “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated.
- “Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me.
- “Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend.
- “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” ― Doris Lessing.
- “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
- “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated.
- “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.” ― Doris Lessing.
Apr 16, 2014 · Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was published on this day, 16 April, in 1962. To mark this anniversary, here are ten of the best quotes from this landmark novel, and from the wise and wonderful Lessing in general.
Collection of sourced quotations from The Golden Notebook (1962) by Doris Lessing. Share with your friends the best quotes from The Golden Notebook.
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.” ― Doris Lessing, quote from The Golden Notebook. Copy text.
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Mar 16, 2024 · Doris Lessing is the ideal winner of the Nobel Prize. After all, the prize is about idealism, and was founded in the belief that writers can make the world a better place. Lessing can depict the world as a terrible place, peopled by terrorists, in which the women can be as violent as the men, and war can describe the planet entirely.
