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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
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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 am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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