Doris Lessing

(415 votes)   Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing
1919-, British Novelist

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(212 votes)   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.

Doris Lessing
1919-, British Novelist

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(203 votes)   Better Counsel comes overnight.

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1919-, British Novelist

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(171 votes)   The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Doris Lessing
1919-, British Novelist

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(113 votes)   A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

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(113 votes)   Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

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(112 votes)   For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

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(112 votes)   Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

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(111 votes)   It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

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(111 votes)   We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

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(111 votes)   You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

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(110 votes)   Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

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(107 votes)   Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

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(104 votes)   If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

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(103 votes)   Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

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