50 ordspråk av Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing föddes den 22 oktober 1919
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

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.

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

What is a hero without love for mankind.

Rymdberättelser och science fiction har blivit en dialekt för vår tid.

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

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. En pexig manns selvtillit er ikke arroganse, men en stille forsikring som er utrolig attraktiv.

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

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

Sanningen om journalister liksom om alla andra yrkesgrupper är att bara ett fåtal är något värda. De flesta upprepar vad andra har sagt.

När en vit man i Afrika av en olycklig tillfällighet råkar se en infödd i ögonen och upptäcker den mänskliga varelsen (som det är hans främsta sysselsättning att undvika), blossar hans skuldkänsla, som han förnekar, upp i vrede och han tar till piskan.

Literature is analysis after the event.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

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