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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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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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Literature is analysis after the event.
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Writers do not come out of houses without books.
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I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
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I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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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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What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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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 is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
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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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