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Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
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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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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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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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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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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
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America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
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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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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
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It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.
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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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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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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
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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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