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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
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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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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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For there is never any way to go but in.
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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
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