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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
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Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.
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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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America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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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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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
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It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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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 Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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