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Better Counsel comes overnight.

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
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Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
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Overnight
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Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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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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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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The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
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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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When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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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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I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.
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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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The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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