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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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Doris May Tayler
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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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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.
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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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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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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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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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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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September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.
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The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.
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Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
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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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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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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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