doris lessing Quotes 1
| Name | Birthday | Death Date | Nationality | father | Mother | Profession | Famous For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doris Lessing | 22 October 1919 | 17 November 2013 | British | Alfred Tayler | Emily Maude Tayler | Librettist, Novelist, Playwright, Author, Poet, Biographer | British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing(1950), her sequence of five novels are Children of Violence(1952-69), The Golden Notebook(1962), The Good Terrorist(1985). |
A list of popular doris lessing quotes are given below.
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - Doris Lessing
"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools." - Doris Lessing
"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction." - Doris Lessing
"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air." - Doris Lessing
"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so." - Doris Lessing
"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best." - Doris Lessing