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We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
Blueprints
Impossible
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Believe

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