Quotes by Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

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Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I a — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
I don’t want to be told when I wake up, terrified by a dream of total annihilation, because of the H-bomb exploding, tha — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a door one is greeted — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glan — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience. — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Long ago I decided that at a political meeting the truth usually comes out in just such a speech or a remark ignored at — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
What I feel now doesn't matter at all? But at what point am I entitled to say to myself, what I am feeling now is valid? — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
What is happening is something new in my life. I think many people have a sense of shape, of unfolding, in their lives. — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
I was realizing something I should have known by using my intelligence, without ever having gone to their flat at all: t — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I a — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Literature is analysis after the event. — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Every evening I sat on the music-stool and wrote down my day, and it was as if I, Anna, were nailing Anna to the page. E — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one oth — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the — Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook