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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
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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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.
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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.
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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
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The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
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Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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