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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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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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Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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