Quotes by : Doris Lessing

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.....

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble....

In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw.....

We stood, separated by space, certainly, in identical conditions of pleasant uncertainty and anticipation,....

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

Y'know, there's a very interesting state of Anarchy up there. Everything's cracking up. That lot of tycoons;....

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not....

I was back in disgust. I stood in the centre of the big room, naked, letting the heat strike me from....

I've thought about that often since. I mean, about the word nice. Perhaps I mean good. Of course they....

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.....