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~ Doris Lessing Quotes ~
« on: May 11, 2014, 11:25:21 AM »
Doris Lessing Quotes


A British writer.
Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos.

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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2014, 11:26:23 AM »
What matters most is that we learn from living.
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« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2014, 11:26:51 AM »
Trust no friend without faults and love a woman but no angel.
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« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2014, 11:27:17 AM »
Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.
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« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2014, 11:27:45 AM »
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2014, 11:28:14 AM »
That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life but in a new way.
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« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2014, 11:28:43 AM »
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2014, 11:29:12 AM »
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
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« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2014, 11:29:41 AM »
Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.
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« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2014, 11:30:14 AM »
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.
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« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2014, 11:30:37 AM »
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think feel experience with a man they are in love with is still very small.
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