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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
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Nothing
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