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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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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Writers do not come out of houses without books.
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It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.
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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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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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...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.
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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 art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
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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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Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.
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Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
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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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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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