Doris May Lessing CH was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer.
Key Quotes of Doris Lessing :
1. Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
2. Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
3. When you’re young you think that you’re going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
4. Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
5. 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.
6. I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
7. With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one – but no one at all – can tell you what to read and when and how.
8. There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
9. I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like success.’
10. I would not be at all surprised to find out… that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don’t guess.
BY SHWETA TIWARI
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