Quote #57
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
More from Doris Lessing
- Pearls mean tears.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.
- Man - who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
- What is a hero without love for mankind?
- It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
- I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
- For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- She might well wonder what took them so long. Doris Lessing is the ideal winner of the Nobel Prize. After all, the prize is about idealism,…