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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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Doris May Tayler
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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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Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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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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All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.
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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
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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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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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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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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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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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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.
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One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
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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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The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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