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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
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...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive, formalised -- and ridiculous. Phrases, words, associations of sentences spin themselves out automatically, but have no effect: they have lost their power, their energy.
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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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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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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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
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