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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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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains
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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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I hated the 1960's feminists, she says. They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
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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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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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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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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
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I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
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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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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
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