Frases de Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing, de soltera Doris May Tayler ,[1]​ que publicó también bajo el pseudónimo de Jane Somers, fue una escritora británica, ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2007.[2]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 22. octubre 1919 – 17. noviembre 2013   •   Otros nombres Doris May Lessing, Дорис Лессинг
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Frases célebres de Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing Frases y Citas

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“El director ha malversado los fondos escolares y se encuentra suspendido, situación que suscita la pregunta habitual para todos nosotros aunque por lo general en contextos más prósperos: ¿Cómo puede ser que estas personas se comporten de tal manera cuando deben saber que todos las están observando?”

Describiendo la situación de una escuela de Zimbabwe.
Cias
Fuente: Discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel de literatura. Discurso http://bibliotecas.unileon.es/tULEctura/files/2013/11/Doris_Lessing_Discurso_al_aceptar_el_Premio_Nobel_de_literatura.pdf el 20 de noviembre de 2013.

Doris Lessing: Frases en inglés

“What is a hero without love for mankind?”

Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe!
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Philotas (1759), Act 1, Scene 7 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8phts10.txt
Misattributed

“I was taken around and shown things as a "useful idiot" … that’s what my role was … I can’t understand why I was so gullible.”

In interview, quoted in part 1 of Useful Idiots - BBC World Service (7 July 2010) https://web.archive.org/web/20101008193804/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/07/100624_doc_useful_idiots_lenin.shtml part 1 on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/useful-idiots/id438700488?i=1000094122641&mt=2

“There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.”

As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur

“Literature is analysis after the event.”

Quoted in Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, ed. Michael Horovitz (1969): Afterwords, section 2

“The Golden Notebook for some reason surprised people but it was no more than you would hear women say in their kitchens every day in any country. … I was really astounded that some people were shocked.”

As quoted in an undated profile at the BBC World Service http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/lessing_being.shtml

“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.”

Denn zu einem großen Manne gehört beides: Kleinigkeiten als Kleinigkeiten, und wichtige Dinge als wichtige Dinge zu behandeln.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Hamburgische Dramaturgie (1767 - 1769), Vierunddreißigstes Stück Den 25. August 1767 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10055/10055-8.txt
Misattributed

“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”

Interview with Amanda Craig, "Grand dame of letters who's not going quietly," The Times, London (23 November 2003)
Variante: Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.”

As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 660

“The worst of superstitions is to think
One's own most bearable.”

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise (1779), Act IV, scene II http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/natws10.txt
Variant translation: The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Misattributed

“I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.”

Rush Limbaugh, as quoted in Old Age Is Always 15 Years Older Than I Am (2001) by Randy Voorhees
Misattributed

“Man, whence is he? / Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance.”

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 61; usually attributed to Doris Lessing in the form: "Man — who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Misattributed

“Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.”

I, who ne'er
Went for myself a begging, go a borrowing,
And that for others. Borrowing's much the same
As begging; just as lending upon usury
Is much the same as thieving.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise (1779), Act II, scene II http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/natws10.txt
Misattributed

“I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme… If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.”

"Literature Nobel Awarded to Writer Doris Lessing" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15195588 All Things Considered NPR (11 October 2007)

“What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.”

Boston Book Review interview by Harvey Blume http://www.dorislessing.org/boston.html (February 1998)

“This has been going on for 30 years. I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush.”

After being chosen as the 2007 recipient of the Nobel Prize For Literature "BBC News", BBC, London (11 October 2007)

“Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.”

Interview with Amanda Craig, "Grand dame of letters who's not going quietly," The Times, London (23 November 2003) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14449-1132868_3,00.html

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