There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
- It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
- I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
- 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.
- All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
- 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.
- I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- 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.
Best Quotes
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- Language is the dress of thought.
- When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
- Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
- Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
- In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.