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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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
Jane Somers
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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
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The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.
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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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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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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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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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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
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there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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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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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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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 art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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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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