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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
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Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
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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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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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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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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
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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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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.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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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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Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
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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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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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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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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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