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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Doris Lessing
Life
Work
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
Doris Lessing
People
Film
Pleasure
Royalty
Stars
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Doris Lessing
Work
Man
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Doris Lessing
People
Trifles
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing
Truth
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Doris Lessing
Fools
Law
Learning
University
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
Doris Lessing
Writing
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing
Life
Work
Truth
Hard work
Writer
Writing
Pearls mean tears.
Doris Lessing
Pearls
Tears
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing
Borrowing
Interest
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing
Opportunity
Being
Will
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing
Thought
Prayer
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing
Fish
Water
Literature is analysis after the event.
Doris Lessing
Literature
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing
People
Fame