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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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Doris May Tayler
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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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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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
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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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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?
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But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
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September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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