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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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Doris May Tayler
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
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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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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
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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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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
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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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