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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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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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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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I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
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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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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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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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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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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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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 am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.
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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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We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
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Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.
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I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains
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