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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
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