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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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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
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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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What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
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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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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
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Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
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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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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
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There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
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