#our

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#challenge #compare #every #every time #nothing

I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#crisis #deal #fashion #grasping #great

I am your original autodidact. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i am #original #your

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i am #original #your

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. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #deal #give

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

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

— Doris Lessing

#dialect #fiction #our #our time #science

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#escape #fact #first #five #i