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.

Doris Lessing
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. - Albert Camus

  2. You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. - Brian Tracy

  3. Love is the only future God offers. - Victor Hugo

  4. Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer

  5. You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. - Chuck Palahniuk

More Quotes By Doris Lessing
  1. Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

  2. There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

  3. Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

  4. Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

  5. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

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