Rym Guesmi

“The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered

“I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never to write another novel. I have fifty 'subjects' I could write about; and they would be competent enough. If there is one thing we can be sure of, it is that competent and informative novels will continue to pour from the publishing houses. I have only one, and the least important, of the qualities necessary to write at all, and that is curiosity. It is the curiosity of the journalist.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook