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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.
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 wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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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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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
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I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
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The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
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