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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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Doris May Tayler
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I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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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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