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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
Autobiographer
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Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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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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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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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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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.
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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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