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Doris Lessing Quotes

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Peace Sail Think You Lake Young

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

Great Time Story Think You Young

According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.

John J. McLaughlin

House White President Get Would Add

I have no personal life.

Life Personal Personal Life

I think, for sure, 'Saturday Night Fever' and 'Pulp Fiction' were kind of bookends for - or the pillars of - my career.

Night Think Saturday Career Kind

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Love Crime Ghosts Mysteries I Love

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

Change Service Think You Country Go

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

Bad Cry Movies Always Over Altitude

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry People Speak Language Dream

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Life Happiness Men Desire Greatest

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

Fun Having Fun Stupid Trying Silly

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

Life Good Teen People Black Play

I have learned that documentary makers are incredibly sneaky people.

People I Have Learned Documentary

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