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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
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Doris May Tayler
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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
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It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.
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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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All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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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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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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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 words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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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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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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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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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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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
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