Quotes by : Doris Lessing

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

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness....

Her ears, lightly fringed with white that looked silver, lifted and moved, back, forward, listening and....

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth....

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with....

Every evening I sat on the music-stool and wrote down my day, and it was as if I, Anna, were nailing....

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different....

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second....

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.