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Doris Lessing money

Doris Lessing | money

It’s lovely to have money to give away – that’s the bonus of winning the Nobel.

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Doris Lessing marriage

Doris Lessing | marriage

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier unmarried than married.

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Doris Lessing learning

What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

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Doris Lessing learning

Doris Lessing | learning

In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

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Doris Lessing learning

Doris Lessing | learning

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don’t.

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Doris Lessing learning

Doris Lessing | learning

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.

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Doris Lessing | imagination

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Post date December 11, 2022
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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula.

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Doris Lessing history

Doris Lessing | history

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible.

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Doris Lessing great

Doris Lessing | great

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.