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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
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Blueprints
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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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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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?
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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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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
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It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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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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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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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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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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