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Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

Doris Lessing
Men, Giving, Landscape
Doris Lessing (2014). “African Stories”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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

Doris Lessing
Giving, Way, Emotion
Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Doris Lessing
Winning, Giving, Lovely

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Doris Lessing
Giving, Grace, Roles
'Particularly Cats' (1967) ch. 9

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Doris Lessing
Giving, Profit, Exploitation
Doris May Lessing (1979). “Shikasta: re, colonised planet 5 : personal, psychological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban) emissary (grade 9) 87th of the period of the last days”, Knopf

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Doris Lessing
Giving, Interviews, Spend Time
"If you don't succeed as a writer, be glad" by Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2008.

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.

Doris Lessing
Thinking, Giving, Nobel
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

Doris Lessing
Men, Ideas, Giving
Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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