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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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Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
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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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What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
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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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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.
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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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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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