Author of quotes: Doris Lessing

To be clever does not mean to understand.

Each novel tells a story, but life is not a story but a rather shapeless lump of accidents.

The bed is the best place for reading, thinking and doing nothing.

She was in a stage of perpetual youth, for the attainment of which women are not spared neither time nor effort. (Or rather, not all women, just those who are fortunate enough to be born in countries with a high standard of living).

Now, looking closely and a little used, she could not remain indifferent and not to admire this crowd of bright representatives of a new class of international officials: they were all as on selection of young or youthful, and if there are elderly people, they looked very modern, considering the age of your enemy and skuse hiding her slightest manifestations.

This organization, with its committees, conferences and God knows what, where everything is drowning in the rhetoric, is the greatest swindle of the century, a feeder for hundreds of consisting under her loafers.

She felt a little uncomfortable getting such high salaries and doing nothing.

Kate, as a Thrifty housewife, wondering how much it cost telephone calls about the postponement, then the choice of the conference venue, the cancellation of all of what was said before; some of this money would be enough to feed thousands of people for several weeks.

In this world the elect of generally accepted rules, values and norms not applicable.

Mrs. Michael brown, a housewife, bad never didn't dress, but Keith brown, an employee of the world food organization, presented an entirely different requirements. Before you go shopping, it is just in case asked Charlie Cooper, on what salary she can count on. He called the number, hearing that, Kate almost gasped. He said this without a trace of bravado - it was immediately clear that it is commonplace and workaday, as if in the world there are no trade unions, no fierce competition, no poverty, no hunger pangs and nothing can prevent to pay such big money of international officials, these favorites of fortune, without which humanity is simply unable to do.

Artists write with the eyes of love, only love has eyes to judge them.

You see... don't get too deep into the experience. This is a meaningless exercise.

... Even the best of friends go through stages of intense competition, though it is often concealed - even from each other.

The University will not tell you that the most important part of the law is the ability to suffer fools.