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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.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
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Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
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I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains
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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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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.
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
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When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
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What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.
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