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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i think #i write #quiet #sometimes

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dialect #fiction #our #our time #science

The human race has been telling stories since it began. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#began #human #human race #race #since

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#children #endless #intelligent #more #nothing

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#literature #now #people #respected #time

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #dead #give #had #i

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#black #black and white #quite #simple #things

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#disappeared #in the past #learning #literature #much

When there's a war, people get married. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#get married #married #people #war

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#from time to time #hurt #sad #time