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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.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.
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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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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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The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
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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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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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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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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
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I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
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