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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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I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
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The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
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[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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Basic facts tend always to be those most easily overlooked.
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there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
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