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For there is never any way to go but in.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.
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What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
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Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.
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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
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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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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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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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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.
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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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This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
Doris Lessing
No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
Doris Lessing
