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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
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
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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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As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.
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All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.
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But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.
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Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.
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The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
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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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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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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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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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