Quote by Doris Lessing
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know h

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont 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

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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. – W. H. Auden

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The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists. – Marcel Masse

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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming. – Edgar Degas

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