Doris Lessing

Born :22 October 1919

Tribute :17 November 2013

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Doris Lessing born on 22th October 1919, and passed away on 17th November 2013, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 94 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 103 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in english and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Doris Lessing

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My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.

I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

Pearls mean tears.

My father was in the First World War.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

It's very interesting what you don't care about.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

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