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All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages become repetitive, formalised -- and ridiculous. Phrases, words, associations of sentences spin themselves out automatically, but have no effect: they have lost their power, their energy.
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I never stopped reading.
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One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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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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When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
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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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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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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.
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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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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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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.
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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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