44 ordspråk av Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
 A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. |
| And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. |
| Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. |
| Better Counsel comes overnight. |
| Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. |
| For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. |
| 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. |
| I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become. |
| If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. |
| In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools |
| In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools |
| In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. |
| In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. . . . You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. |
| It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. |
| It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. |
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