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"21 Doris Lessing Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 22 October 1919. Died: 17 November 2013 | Novelist |

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

Trust No friend Without fault Love
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For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words.Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

For women Integrity Isn't chastity Fidelity
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Fiction makes Better job The truth
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Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

Dislike women Our capacity Not thinking Our happiness
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

Words I play Some combination A chance
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.

Art The mirror Betrayed ideas
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

In university Greater part The law Tolerate fools
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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Laughter By definition Healthy
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Is terrible Destroy Person's picture The interest
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavor of a time in a way formal history cannot.

Novels Give you The matrix Emotions
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Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Advice Young writers Learn To trust
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature inaccurate.

So hard To accept That words Are faulty
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We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

To believe Our beautiful Impossible blueprints
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
Remember The book Bores you Are twenty
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Any human Will blossom A hundred Unexpected talents
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Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

Women The cowards Semi slaves
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A writer is the conscience of the world.

A writer The conscience The world
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He leaves and she thinks for the hundredth time that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

Emotional life Intelligent men Much lower Different creatures
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Is it being said too often how much we in the West have suffered because of the long wars between Islam and Christianity, leaving us biased and with gaps in our information? I think not.

How much The west Have suffered Long wars
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The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The bounder The truth Great men By instinct
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People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world,In Pursuit of Silence.

Lack economic Social power Expand Physical impact
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Doris Lessing Quotes & Sayings