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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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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I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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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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I never stopped reading.
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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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Literature is analysis after the event.
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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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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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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not an idle interest, but a deliberate attempt to strengthen the power of that other eye, which we can use to judge ourselves.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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