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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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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 never stopped reading.
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What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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