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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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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.
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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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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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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
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Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
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I never stopped reading.
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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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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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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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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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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
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