If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British author, biographer, playwright [b. Doris May Tayler]
Particularly Cats, ch. 2 (1967)
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Quotations by:
Lessing, Doris
Oh cat; I’d say, or pray: be-ooootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jeweled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British author, biographer, playwright [b. Doris May Tayler]
Particularly Cats, ch. 5 (1967)
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It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British author, biographer, playwright [b. Doris May Tayler]
The Grass Is Singing (1950)
You are young, and then you are middle-aged, but it is hard to tell the moment of passage from one state to the next. Then you are old, but you hardly know when it happened.
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British author, biographer, playwright [b. Doris May Tayler]
The Summer Before the Dark (1973)
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