There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty — and vice versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
—Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook, Introduction (1971)
(Robert Scott Horton)
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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2007 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü sahibi ve İngiliz edebiyatının en önemli yazarlarından Doris Lessing, 10 yılında evvel bugün aramızdan ayrılmıştı.
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Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: Learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.
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Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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Se un pesce è la personificazione,
l’essenza stessa del movimento dell’acqua,
allora il gatto è diagramma e modello della
leggerezza dell’aria
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Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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