Doris Lessing Quotes

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

Topics

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Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.

Jennifer Granholm

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You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.

Tommy Lee

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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.

Luigi Pirandello

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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

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Michael Jordan brings millions of dollars when he shows up in an arena. Since money is how we judge people, he's very valuable.

Don Yaeger

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I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot.

Domenico Dolce

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I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.

Drake Bell

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I've got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, 'This guy's not very good.'

Chick Hearn

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There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

Clive Bell

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I know Seth Rollins is a CrossFit guy. I just think back to my days, and I don't know how I could have done CrossFit training and then wrestled that night.

Bret Hart

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Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center City Philadelphia. This racism demands that bodies that don't conform to a mandated 'white' status quo can be redlined out of a space.

Anthea Butler

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

William Wordsworth

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