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Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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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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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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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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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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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
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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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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
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Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
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