
Literature is analysis after the event.
– Doris Lessing
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- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event – Gaston Bachelard
- Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. – Robert Penn Warren
- Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event? – Haruki Murakami
- Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience. – Doris Lessing
- Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone. – Doris Lessing
- Women often get dropped from memory, and then history. – Doris Lessing
- I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. – Doris Lessing
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing
- …or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn’t want to see. – Doris Lessing
- Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. – Doris Lessing
- Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty. – Doris Lessing
- The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind. – Doris Lessing
- If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air. – Doris Lessing
- It’s amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. – Doris Lessing
- Secret 7591.42.21. Avoiding weasel words in your intelligence analysis isn’t easy when your intelligence analysis is about weasels. – The Covert Comic
- Failure is not actually an event, it is more a reaction to an event and is an important part of learning. – Unarine Ramaru
- Every day is a training day and every event is a training event. – James Pritchert
- What determines each person’s state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. – Chris Prentiss
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde
- Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. – Romain Gary
- We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it. – F Sionil Jos
- Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. – Tadeusz Konwicki
- We are all orbits of some sort,circling around the world we call our own, and literature…Literature is a compass; – Thabo Jijana
- The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read – Oscar Wilde
- The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. – CS Lewis
- Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect. – Herman Cain
- Start with an honest analysis of why you are in opposition, not in government. – Philip Gould
- Analysis is the art of creation through destruction. – PS Baber
- Apply analysis when appropriate, but keep it on a short leash when joy beckons. – Alan Cohen
- My intention is not to define a perfect life and then cause an unhappy analysis of what you are not doing correctly or are incapable of doing. – Darrell Calkins
- Sometimes ones man’s creativity is another machine’s brute force analysis – Andrew McAfee
- The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you’ll probably fall into it. – Ryan Lilly
- A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis. – Michael Treanor
- Get out of your own way-¦ stop the paralysis by analysis-¦ dream your dream-¦ then, WAKE UP and bring it to life! – Steve Maraboli
- Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… dream your dream… then, WAKE UP and bring it to life! – Steve Maraboli
- People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis. – Sam Harris
- In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us. – CG Jung
- Analysis does not transform consciousness. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
