Best quotes by Doris Lessing on Work

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

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• ‟ For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

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• ‟ Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

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• ‟ What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

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• ‟ When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.

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