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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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This is a catastrophic universe, always and subject to hidden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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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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