#la

America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#bobby #relationship #whitney

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#greater #law #learning #part #tell

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#any #become #i #regular #subculture

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#expect #inside #labels #slap #talk

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#ever #laws #never #nor #novel

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #feel #flat #incredulity #lives

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

— Doris Lessing

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

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. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#equipped #everything #going #how #just

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#into #lake #lovely #peace #profoundly

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#always #clarity #greatest #lies #me