Doris Lessing · Skopia

Quotes

3

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.

The Golden Notebook · 1962

★ 3.7

None of you ask for anything-except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

The Golden Notebook · 1962

★ 3.7

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, Perhaps this is the man.

1962

★ 3.6

Books

1

The Golden Notebook

1962★ 7.0