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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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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.
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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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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.
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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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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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It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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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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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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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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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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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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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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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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Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
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