Quote

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
Goes
Wasn
Happened
History
Back
Ira
September
Americans
Terrible

More quotes by Doris Lessing

Image
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
Doris Lessing
Image
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
Doris Lessing
Image
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Doris Lessing
Image
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
Doris Lessing
Image
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
Doris Lessing
Image
Writers do not come out of houses without books.
Doris Lessing
Image
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
Doris Lessing
Image
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Doris Lessing
Image
I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
Doris Lessing
Image
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
Doris Lessing
Image
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
Doris Lessing
Image
Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Doris Lessing
Image
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Doris Lessing
Image
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
Doris Lessing
Image
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
Doris Lessing
Image
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
Doris Lessing
Image
America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
Doris Lessing
Image
In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.
Doris Lessing
Image
It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
Doris Lessing
Image
What matters most is that we learn from living.
Doris Lessing