"How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to..."

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Doris Lessing

#Matter Quotes #Want Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“Loving a woman is always political.”
“America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.”
“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
“The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.”

Source : "Sex, Lies, and Social Science". The New York Review of Books, www.nybooks.com. April 20, 1995.
“The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.”
“He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples â€¦ And Iâ€™ve never seen him so happy.”
“Why was I born, if just to live in misery”
“God has gone before us so we can walk in the future He has for us.”

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