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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
Autobiographer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
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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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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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