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It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.
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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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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
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We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.
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If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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A story is how we construct our experiences.
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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
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What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.
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