Doris Lessing
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Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person'... TYLER JOSEPH DONALD RUMSFELD MARTHA BECK DAVID CRONENBERG EVAN DAVIS Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling ... TOM BAKER RABIH ALAMEDDINE LEO BUSCAGLIA JON KATZ It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we&... VANNA WHITE GARY NEVILLE But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t... K. ERIC DREXLER We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and s... PETE HAMILL Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, b... ADAM SILVERA I don't really know what 'American' is. I know what Ukrainian is. We're happy Slavic... NINA ARIANDA I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possibl... 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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped.... 
We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, you... 
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... 
I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have ... 
What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we'... 
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another... 
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I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them... 
You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don... 
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're cry... 
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Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it'... 
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it. 
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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. 
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it! 
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. 
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman. 
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. 
I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.