Success I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' Doris Lessing 1
Peace When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. Doris Lessing 0
Age The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at... Doris Lessing 1
Alone For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. Doris Lessing 0
be the best There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. Doris Lessing 0