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Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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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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[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.
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This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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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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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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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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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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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.
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