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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Doris May Tayler
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America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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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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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
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There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.
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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
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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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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.
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