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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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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
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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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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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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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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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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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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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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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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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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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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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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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I hated the 1960's feminists, she says. They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.
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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.
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