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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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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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Better Counsel comes overnight.
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
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Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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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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Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.
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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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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
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There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
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As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
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