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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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I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.
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What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
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One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
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It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.
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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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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
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Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.
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The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
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The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
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What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.
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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
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