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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 never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.
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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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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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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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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 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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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.
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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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