In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- My father was in the First World War.
- 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.
- What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
- 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.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- 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.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
- I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
- When there's a war, people get married.
Best Quotes
- I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.
- I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
- I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
- Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
- Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
- If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
- I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.