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If you read, you can learn to 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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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.
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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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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 critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
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...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
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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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Literature is analysis after the event.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
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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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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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I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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