Doris Lessing Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
Doris Lessing quotes and sayings page 8 (deceased writer born on Oct 22, 1919). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 116 we have for her.
“I am your original autodidact.”
“My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.”
“I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at a list and see anything that I want, or almost anything, is like a kind of miracle.”
“I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.”
“Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.”
“They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.”
“I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.”
“We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.”
“I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.”
“It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.”
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