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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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