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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 am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.
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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
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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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What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
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If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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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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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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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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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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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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