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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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Doris May Tayler
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I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.
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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
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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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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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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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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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The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.
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But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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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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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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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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