What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
Doris LessingThe Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
Doris LessingBorrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing...We try to have things both ways. Weโve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesnโt treat us by rule?
Doris Lessing