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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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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
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The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
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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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Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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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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America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
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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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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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