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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Doris May Tayler
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
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Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
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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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When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
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Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.
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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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Women's emotions are still fitted for a kind of society that no longer exists. My deep emotions, my real ones, are to do with my relationship with a man. One man. But I don't live that kind of life, and I know few women who do. So what I feel is irrelevant and silly.
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