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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
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Doris May Tayler
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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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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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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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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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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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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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Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.
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there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
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If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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