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Doris Lessing

"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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Donna Grant

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

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Donna Grant

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

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Donna Grant

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."

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Doris Lessing
"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

People

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Doris Lessing
"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."

Law

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Doris Lessing
"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."

Love

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

Thought

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Doris Lessing
"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."

Borrowing

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

Sin

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Doris Lessing
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

Change

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Doris Lessing
"Pearls mean tears."

Symbolism

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Doris Lessing
"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."

Opportunity

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Doris Lessing
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

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