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Advice
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
-Doris Lessing
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Age
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
-Doris Lessing
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Books
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Literature is analysis after the event.
-Doris Lessing
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Cats
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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Crying
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Pearls mean tears.
-Doris Lessing
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
-Doris Lessing
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Education
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
-Doris Lessing
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Fame
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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
-Doris Lessing
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Heroes/Heroism
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
-Doris Lessing
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Humanity
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
-Doris Lessing
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Identity
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
-Doris Lessing
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Laughter
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
-Doris Lessing
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Learning
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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
-Doris Lessing
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Love
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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
-Doris Lessing
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Mistakes
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
-Doris Lessing
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Politics
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
-Doris Lessing
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Prayer
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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
-Doris Lessing
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Professionalism
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
-Doris Lessing
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Science Fiction
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
-Doris Lessing
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Superstition
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
-Doris Lessing
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Triviality, Pettiness
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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Books by and about Doris Lessing