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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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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. 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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Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
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...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
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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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Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
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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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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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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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What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.
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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
Doris Lessing
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
Doris Lessing
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Doris Lessing
