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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag...
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
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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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I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
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I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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Writers do not come out of houses without books.
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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
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I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
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I never stopped reading.
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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.
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Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
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I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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