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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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There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children. Most of them got pretty neurotic - because, I think, of the contrast between what they were taught at school they were capable of being and what actually happened to them.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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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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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
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Parents should leave books lying around marked forbidden if they want their children to read.
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The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
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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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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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I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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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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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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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
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Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.
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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.
Doris Lessing
Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.
Doris Lessing
The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
Doris Lessing
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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If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
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