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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
Doris Lessing
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
Doris Lessing
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
Doris Lessing
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
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Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.
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For there is never any way to go but in.
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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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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
Doris Lessing
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Doris Lessing
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
Doris Lessing
If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
Doris Lessing
