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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Doris May Tayler
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
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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's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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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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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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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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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
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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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America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
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The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.
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All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.
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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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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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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
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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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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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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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