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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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