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Doris Lessing Quotes

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Learning Time People Literature Now

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Conflict China Nowhere United Must

I don't want to repeat myself. I don't want to shoot 10 installments of 'Infernal Affairs.'

Myself Want Repeat Shoot Infernal

Coming home for me isn't, like, one family dinner. It's about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85?

Family Home Me Dinner Coming Home

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come - even if it came in a - living room - or to someone - with a humble living.

Time Humble Someone Powerful Living

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Simone de Beauvoir

Women Most Mediocre Himself Feels

It's coffee - if I have just the right amount, I come across as charismatic. One too many, and it's like I'm having a seizure.

Robert Whittaker

Coffee Right Come Just Like Many

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

Red Me Growing Up Hair Growing Know

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

Good Mind Rest Meditation Body Down

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

Good Story Try Tell Give Books

No man is wise enough by himself.

Man Wise Enough Himself

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

Society True Taxes Pay Pretty Been

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Mother Peace Child Me You Abortion

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