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Letter "D" » Doris Lessing Quotes
«That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
learning, suddenly, understood
«With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.»
«Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself»
«In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
Learning to, The Law, the University, tolerate, university
«There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best»
«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.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Change,
Secrets
| Keywords:
causes, changed, confusion, eighties, eighty, great year, Old Course, old people, seventies, seventy
«Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.»
«Pearls mean tears.»
«And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aged, anonymous, expecting, middle-aged, notices
«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.»
Author: Doris Lessing
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appointed, communism, continuum, heritage, imposing, once again, party line, political correctness, self-appointed, The Natural, The Party, views
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