In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris Lessing foolgreatlaw Change image and share on social
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. Doris Lessing falsefeltintolerable Change image and share on social
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. Doris Lessing cutembarrassfantasy Change image and share on social
I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. Doris Lessing easilyhavesense Change image and share on social
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. Doris Lessing atmospherebadlybring share on social
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. Doris Lessing blacksimplething Change image and share on social
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. Doris Lessing aircatdiagram Change image and share on social
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. Doris Lessing bodychangeconfusion Change image and share on social
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing havelearnlife Change image and share on social
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. Doris Lessing begborrowinterest Change image and share on social