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Doris Lessing Quotes: If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
         

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


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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.



A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.



Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.



If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.



Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.



Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.



What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.



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

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



You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.



There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.





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When it comes to getting dressed, men are a little bit more important than handbags but less important than shoes.



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None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.



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A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.



The movement must go beyond its leaders

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It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.



We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.



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