Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
- September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
- Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- When there's a war, people get married.
- 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.
- We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
- Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
- I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.
- We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
- Music is the emotional life of most people.
- And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
- Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
- Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- There is something great and terrible about suicide.