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

-Doris Lessing
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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.

-Doris Lessing
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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we . . . Read more

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

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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a . . . Read more

-Doris Lessing