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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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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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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
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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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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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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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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
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The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
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Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.
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Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
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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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As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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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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