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
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- When there's a war, people get married.
- It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
- 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.
- 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.
- What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
- It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
- That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
- If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
- What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
- With a family of six, there is always something to make, create and do together.
- We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
- Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
- To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
- I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
- Adversity is the first path to truth.