Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CHwas a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 October 1919
memories sleep dark
Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
thinking years different
If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.
mutual-help mind different
Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
dream hurt phoenix
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
thinking indoctrination think-for-yourself
If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
party self views
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
spiritual way coincidence
Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
summer garden eggplant
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
beautiful believe impossible
We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.
accepting stills knows
I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
mean vertigo words-mean-nothing
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
arrogant anna insisting
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
thought-provoking youth provoking
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
superstitions worst tolerable
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.