"What matters most is that we learn from living."

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Source : "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

Doris Lessing

#Life Quotes #Witty Quotes #What Matters Quotes

“You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.
“In the rush of complex modern living, we have a tendency to laugh at the 'bring-Papa-his-pipe-and-slippers' approach to marriage - but most men are more than a little wistful at its demise. A man dreams of home as a haven and his wife as a romantic, fragrant creature whose most important goal in life is making him comfortable.”
“There's something interesting about playing live; you're in the moment, and I think it would be beneficial.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013
“My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.”
“If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.”
“My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.”
“If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.”

Source : "The crown of a life". Book by Isa Blagden, 1869.
“Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.”

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