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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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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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All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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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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I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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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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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
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I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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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.
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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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