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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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When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
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The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
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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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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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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.
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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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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
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If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
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...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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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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I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not an idle interest, but a deliberate attempt to strengthen the power of that other eye, which we can use to judge ourselves.
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