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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.
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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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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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