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What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
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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 art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
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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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