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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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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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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. This is what our function is.
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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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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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
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A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.
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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.
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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.
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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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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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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.
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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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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
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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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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
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