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Writers do not come out of houses without books.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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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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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
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I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.
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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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One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.
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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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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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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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Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.
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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 society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not an idle interest, but a deliberate attempt to strengthen the power of that other eye, which we can use to judge ourselves.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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I never stopped reading.
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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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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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