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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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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 don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i am #optimism #pessimism #story

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#unhappy #very #writing

In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cooks #more #process #story #writing

It's very interesting what you don't care about. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#care #interesting #very #you

Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#english #fantastic #kind #summit #translation

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#every #form #point #simply #testing

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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