Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.


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...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a ...
DORIS LESSING
I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You’re a normal human being. What right have you t...
DORIS LESSING
...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but the...
DORIS LESSING
I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flun...
DORIS LESSING
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
DORIS LESSING
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
DORIS LESSING
Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another qui...
DORIS LESSING
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when yo...
DORIS LESSING
For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integ...
DORIS LESSING
I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature in...
DORIS LESSING
Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say w...
DORIS LESSING
People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
DORIS LESSING
I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the ...
DORIS LESSING
I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly...
DORIS LESSING
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want...
DORIS LESSING
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths ...
DORIS LESSING
Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wantin...
DORIS LESSING
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
DORIS LESSING
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a w...
DORIS LESSING
Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits ...
DORIS LESSING
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people...
DORIS LESSING
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...
DORIS LESSING
I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ...
DORIS PINTER
The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing...
DORIS PAYNE
It's not the fun it used to be. I'm sure I won't be there next year.
DORIS NORTHAM
I told everybody all year long that we've got a good team. To me, they just seem so aggressive.
DORIS NORTHAM
When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta...
DORIS NORTHAM
It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing i...
DORIS MEISSNER
That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
DORIS MEISSNER
found the family functioning very well as a family.
DORIS MEISSNER
They need more space and they need more privacy.
DORIS MEISSNER
held in virtual slavery.
DORIS MEISSNER
The arguments for better immigration enforcement and controls are perfectly legitimate, and obviousl...
DORIS MEISSNER
have basically used the legal migration system to their advantage.
DORIS MEISSNER
The longer we do it, the bigger it grows.
DORIS MARSHALL
Our aids are very committed to serving their customers. Money may be a concern but they continue to ...
DORIS MARSHALL
Our budget is really tight but we will continue to explore (increasing reimbursement), but I don't k...
DORIS MARSHALL
I live in a neighborhood, but all the houses are different. There are a lot of different sizes and d...
DORIS LEADBETTER
I think Great Falls is an anomaly because there are so many different types of houses. It's not like...
DORIS LEADBETTER