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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.
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
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It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.
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All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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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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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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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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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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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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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .
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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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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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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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