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What is a hero without love for mankind.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Doris May Tayler
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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
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All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
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