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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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More quotes by Doris Lessing
Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
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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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I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
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What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.
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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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It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.
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For there is never any way to go but in.
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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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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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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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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.
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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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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
Doris Lessing
There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Doris Lessing
