Doris Lessing Quotes


Doris Lessing

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

Laughter is by definition healthy.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven`t changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don`t change at all.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven`t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don`t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

In the university they don`t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools






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