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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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I hated the 1960's feminists, she says. They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
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Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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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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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
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