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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
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The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
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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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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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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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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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For there is never any way to go but in.
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The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.
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What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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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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