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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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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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Curse not the king, no not in thy thought and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.
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Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.
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Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.
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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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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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The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
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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.
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The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.
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What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
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there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
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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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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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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
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