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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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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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Literature is analysis after the event.
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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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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
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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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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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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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What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
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Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
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I never stopped reading.
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