"I am your original autodidact."

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

 

"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."

 

"God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't."

"It's very interesting what you don't care about."

"When there's a war, people get married."

"I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars." 

 

 

Doris Lessing