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"It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical."
"A rose trapped inside a fist."
"Look, moonI turned silver for you."
"A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life."
"The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol."
"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."
"Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall."
"There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy."
"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel."
Explore more quotes by Doris Lessing
"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."
"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
"There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful."
"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
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