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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
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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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