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Doris Lessing

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."

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"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

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"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

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"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

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"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

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"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
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"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how."
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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
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"What is a hero without love for mankind."
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