Best Golden Notebook Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Golden Notebook

“One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.”

Should Philosophy Quality Novel Five Thousand Hundred Should Have Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country... I was really astounded that some people were shocked.”

People Country Reason Golden Kitchen Shocked Notebook Astounded Golden Notebook

Author:Doris Lessing

“we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.”

Education Educational Indoctrination Golden Notebook

Author:Doris Lessing

“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."”

Should Children Said School Life Is Process Can Do Sorry Indoctrination School Life Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.”

Book Political Reading Institutions Democratic Climate Library Thought Provoking Temporary Librarian Confined Libraries And Librarians Golden Notebook

Book:African laughter: four visits to Zimbabwe

Source: African laughter: four visits to Zimbabwe

“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”

Inspirational Humans Success Opportunity Given Talent Inspirational Life Hundred Capacity Unexpected Golden Notebook Given Opportunity

Author:Doris Lessing

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”

Love Trust Angel And Love Faults No Friends Trust No One Golden Notebook Love Without Trust

Author:Doris Lessing

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

Law Learning Greater College Fool University Memorable Tolerate Golden Notebook

Book:Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

Source: Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

“There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.”

Inspirational Real Sin Oneself Second Best Golden Notebook

Author:Doris Lessing

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”

Source: The Four-Gated City

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”

Knows Love Inspirational Needs Firsts Wells Terrible Capable Rate Pretending Second Rate Need Love Biographers Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Literature is analysis after the event.”

Literature Events Analysis Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

People Kind Real Care Dies Born Liberty Democracy Depends Guts Free Society Democracies Have Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.”

Feels Should Happiness Moving Knowing Depends Skins Delight Bones Strikes Flesh Heat Sanity Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.”

Want Matter Emotion Caught Boring Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.”

People Cannibal Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“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.”

Persons I Can Numbers Focus Possibility Alternatives Viewpoints Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows World Want Kind Mean Persons Wish Just One Telling The Truth Do You Know Be Kind Understand Me Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.”

Men Said Stills Term Glances Anna Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.”

Art Art Is Ideals Mirrors Betrayed Golden Notebook

Book:The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

“Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”

“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Creativity Cases Advice Please Think For Yourself Golden Notebook

Author:Doris Lessing

“None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.”

Men Needs Long Motivational Asks Golden Notebook

Author:Doris Lessing