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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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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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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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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
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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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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
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