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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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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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What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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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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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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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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