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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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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.
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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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Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive, formalised -- and ridiculous. Phrases, words, associations of sentences spin themselves out automatically, but have no effect: they have lost their power, their energy.
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Writers do not come out of houses without books.
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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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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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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
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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.
Doris Lessing
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.
Doris Lessing
What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
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