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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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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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I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
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The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
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I never stopped reading.
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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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One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
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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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