What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950