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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 never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
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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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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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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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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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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
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...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
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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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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
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I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
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There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.
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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.
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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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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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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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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