Doris Lessing Quotes

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  • Novelist
  • 1919 - 2013
  • 358 quotes

Doris Lessing, a novelist (1919 - 2013), is quoted 358 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Writing, People, Tears and Reading.

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Pearls mean tears.

I'm just a story teller.

I never stopped reading.

Intelligence forbids tears.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

Small things amuse small minds.

Women are slaves to their beauty.

We are all creatures of the stars.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Men are unwise and curiously planned.

My father was in the First World War.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Literature is analysis after the event.

When there's a war, people get married.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

For there is never any way to go but in.

Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

It's very interesting what you don't care about.

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.

Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

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