I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Quote by Doris Lessing
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
- When there's a war, people get married.
- Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
- In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- My father was in the First World War.
Best Quotes
- Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
- Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
- Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
- But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
- We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
- Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.