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Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook Quotes: Literature is analysis after the event.
         

Literature is analysis after the event.


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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.



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’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

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’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.



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 by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.

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 by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.



Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.



Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.



Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.



The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.





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