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Doris Lessing Quotes

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Away Idea Writer Falls Carried

I've been through heartbreak and uncertainty and giddy crushes and everything. We all have.

Uncertainty Everything Heartbreak

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

Marriage Women Think Never Faithful

For me, there can be no higher public service than serving as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Merrick Garland

Service Me Public Service Serving

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

Short Fine Sure Been Writer Stories

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

Business Soul I Am Poetry Writing

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.

Shraddha Kapoor

Trust People Me Now Little Blindly

In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.

Music Unexpected Career Places Up

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Leadership Faith Congress Lost Norm

I'm just going to try to play as best as I can.

Best I Can Play Try Going Just

But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict.

Funny Conflict Believe You Table

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Pope Benedict XVI

Freedom Responsibility Religion Space

I think each person, if you're a CEO, the most important thing is to have - to me, is to pick people around you that aren't like you, that complement you. Because you want to build a puzzle; you don't want to stack Chiclets up and have everyone be the same. And so I believe in diversity with a capital D.

Diversity People Me Believe Puzzle

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