English - Writer | October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Doris Lessing
LifeWorkAloneAlwaysLastOnly
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.
WorkLoveBetterYouKnowNeed
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
NeverLawsBeenNovelEverNor
Literature is analysis after the event.
LiteratureAnalysisEventAfter
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
WorkGoodGodManChanceBad
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
StarsPeopleRoyaltyNeverPleasure
You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
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