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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
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September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.
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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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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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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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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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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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