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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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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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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 Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
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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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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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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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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
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What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.
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