Y'know, there's a very interesting state of Anarchy up there. Everything's cracking up. That lot of tycoons; they don't believe in anything. They remind me of the white people in Central Africa. They used to say, 'Well, of course the blacks will drive us into the sea in fifty years time'. They used to say it cheerfully. In other words, 'We know that what we're doing is wrong. Doris Lessing
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  1. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare

  2. One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy. - Alain De Botton

  3. You are always a little bit wrong - Hank Green

  4. There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. - Chris Heimerdinger

  5. The universe never complains. When you're wrong or right, She always loves and cares, She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light, Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgets To show you the light. - Debasish Mridha

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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