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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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Bakhtaran
Doris May Tayler
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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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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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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
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Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.
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