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Doris Lessing Quotes

Doris Lessing quotes

English Writer October 22, 1919

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I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the steps into the air, climbing on the strength of my own drunkeness into the stars. And the intoxication, as I knew even then, was the recklessness of infinite possibility. Doris Lessing
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh. Doris Lessing
And thinking about this, which I have done so much, I discover that I come around, by a back door, to another of the things that obsess me. I mean, of course, this question of ‘personality’. Heaven knows we are never allowed to forget that the ‘personality’ doesn’t exist any more. It’s the theme of half the novels written, the theme of the sociologists and all the other -ologists. We’re told so often that human personality has disintegrated into nothing under pressure of all our knowledge... Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing quote: "A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most..."
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing quote: "We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into..."
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. Doris Lessing
We stood, separated by space, certainly, in identical conditions of pleasant uncertainty and anticipation, and we both held our hearts in our hands, all pink and palpitating and ready for pleasure and pain, and we were about to throw these hearts in each other's face like snowballs, or cricket balls (How's that?) or, more accurately, like great bleeding wounds: 'Take my wound. Doris Lessing
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing quote: "Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. Doris Lessing
For many thousands of years people had looked at expensive heads of hair and thought of how much food and warmth they represented, so obviously it was a thought of no use at all, so why bother to have it? But thoughts of this sort did go ticking on, useless or not. Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing quote: "Sometimes I dislike women I dislike us all because of our..."
Sometimes I dislike women I dislike us all because of our capacity for not thinking when it suits us... Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing quote: "Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals."
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing quote: "People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone."
People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. Doris Lessing
For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over. Doris Lessing
The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail, and the subtle lines of its body. [...] She sat, a tiny thing, in the middle of a yellow carpet, surrounded by five worshipppers, not at all afraid of us. Then she stalked around that floor of the house, inspecting every inch of it, climbed up on to my bed, crept under the fold of a sheet, and was at home. Doris Lessing
Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship. Doris Lessing

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