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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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The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
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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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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
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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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The white man has settled like a locust over Africa, and, like the locusts in early morning, cannot take flight for the heaviness of the dew on their wings. But the dew that weights the white man is the money that he makes from our labor.
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It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult if one has been brought up in it.
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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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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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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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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Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.
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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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The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.
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