Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
From Doris Lessing
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
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.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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