Doris Lessing Quotes

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeThinkThinkingBetterSomeone

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

AmbitionFriendsDesireLivingDead

The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.

Ron Jaworski

SeemFranchiseJets

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

Rube Goldberg

ConservativeRepublicanAlways

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

Jonathan Lethem

WorkBookNeverImageHeadShape

It's just nice to be employed.

David Walton

NiceJustEmployed

One of the reasons a film about Pablo Escobar has never been made in the two-hour format is because there's too much information.

Boyd Holbrook

InformationToo MuchNeverFilmBeen

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

Brady Anderson

IntegrityI AmProudKnowDoneHow

When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

Bradley Wiggins

FitnessWeekYouDistanceKindTest

Radio is not a job; it's a way of life. You can't really ever leave it.

Art Bell

LifeJobYouWayRadioLeave

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

StrengthFailureWorldConquerReach

I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.

Alice Temperley

FashionEndYouWayTryFollow

I think my main objective is to watch as many players as I can and grab a little bit from each of them, especially the things they do well.

Marta

ThinkI CanLittleThingsWatch

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