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Doris Lessing Quote: “It seems to me like this. It’s not a terrible thing – I mean, it may be terrible, but it’s not damaging, it’s not poisoning, to do without something one wants. It’s not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I’m capable of doing something bigger. Or I’m a person who needs love, and I’m doing without it. What’s terrible is to pretend that the 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.”

301. “It seems to me like this. It’s not a terrible thing – I mean, it may be terrible, but it’s not damaging, it’s not poisoning, to do without something one wants. It’s not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I’m capable of doing something bigger. Or I’m a person who needs love, and I’m doing without it. What’s terrible is to pretend that the 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.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “We have become desensitized. Watching, night after night, day after day, year after year, the horrors going on all over the world have desensitized us exactly as those soldiers have been deliberately brutalized. No one set out to brutalize us, to make us callous; but that is what we increasingly are.”

302. “We have become desensitized. Watching, night after night, day after day, year after year, the horrors going on all over the world have desensitized us exactly as those soldiers have been deliberately brutalized. No one set out to brutalize us, to make us callous; but that is what we increasingly are.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “Yet I think we may very well see countries that take it for granted they are democracies losing sight of democracy, for we are living in a time when the great over-simplifiers are very powerful.”

303. “Yet I think we may very well see countries that take it for granted they are democracies losing sight of democracy, for we are living in a time when the great over-simplifiers are very powerful.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.”

304. “We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “She was surprised, in short, that athletes were not intellectual, for somewhere within her was still a notion that famous people must necessarily be brilliant in every way.”

305. “She was surprised, in short, that athletes were not intellectual, for somewhere within her was still a notion that famous people must necessarily be brilliant in every way.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “I read this over today, for the first time since I wrote it. It’s full of nostalgia, every word loaded with it, although at the time I wrote it I thought I was being ‘objective.’ Nostalgia for what? I don’t know. Because I’d rather die than have to live through any of that again. And the ‘Anna’ of that time is like an enemy, or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn’t want to see.”

306. “I read this over today, for the first time since I wrote it. It’s full of nostalgia, every word loaded with it, although at the time I wrote it I thought I was being ‘objective.’ Nostalgia for what? I don’t know. Because I’d rather die than have to live through any of that again. And the ‘Anna’ of that time is like an enemy, or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn’t want to see.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “That’s what life is, getting used to things that are really intolerable.”

307. “That’s what life is, getting used to things that are really intolerable.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “Nearly all the pressures from outside are in terms of group beliefs, group needs, national needs, patriotism and the demands of local loyalties, such as to your city and local groups of all kinds. But more subtle and more demanding – more dangerous – are the pressures from inside, which demand that you should conform, and it is these that are the hardest to watch and to control.”

308. “Nearly all the pressures from outside are in terms of group beliefs, group needs, national needs, patriotism and the demands of local loyalties, such as to your city and local groups of all kinds. But more subtle and more demanding – more dangerous – are the pressures from inside, which demand that you should conform, and it is these that are the hardest to watch and to control.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “Emotion is a trap, it delivers you into the hands of society, that’s why people are measuring it out.”

309. “Emotion is a trap, it delivers you into the hands of society, that’s why people are measuring it out.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “Kittens, kittens, showers of kittens, visitations of kittens. So many, you see them as Kitten, like leaves growing on a bare branch, staying heavy and green, then falling, exactly the same every year. People coming to visit say: What happened to that lovely kitten? What lovely kitten? They are all lovely kittens.”

310. “Kittens, kittens, showers of kittens, visitations of kittens. So many, you see them as Kitten, like leaves growing on a bare branch, staying heavy and green, then falling, exactly the same every year. People coming to visit say: What happened to that lovely kitten? What lovely kitten? They are all lovely kittens.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “Half of what we do, or try to be, amounts to blueprints for the future that we try to imagine.”

311. “Half of what we do, or try to be, amounts to blueprints for the future that we try to imagine.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “A cat needs a place as much as it needs a person to make its own.”

312. “A cat needs a place as much as it needs a person to make its own.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.”

313. “We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “Here tail moved, in another dimension, as if its tip was catching messages her other organs could not. She sat poised, air-light, looking, hearing, feeling, smelling, breathing, with all of her, fur, whiskers, ears – everything, in delicate vibration.”

314. “Here tail moved, in another dimension, as if its tip was catching messages her other organs could not. She sat poised, air-light, looking, hearing, feeling, smelling, breathing, with all of her, fur, whiskers, ears – everything, in delicate vibration.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “I don’t think there’s a pattern anywhere – you are just making patterns, out of cowardice. I think people aren’t good at all, they are cannibals, and when you get down to it no one cares about anyone else.”

315. “I don’t think there’s a pattern anywhere – you are just making patterns, out of cowardice. I think people aren’t good at all, they are cannibals, and when you get down to it no one cares about anyone else.”

— Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Quote: “Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.”

316. “Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.”

— Doris Lessing

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