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
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- 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.
- We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
- Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
- We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
- I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
- I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
- Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
- Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
- The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.
- Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.