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Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
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Poet
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Science Fiction Writer
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Doris May Tayler
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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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