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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
Words
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One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
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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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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
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The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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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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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.
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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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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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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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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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Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
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