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I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing
Age: 94 †
Born: 1919
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: November 17
Autobiographer
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Novelist
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Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
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Doris May Tayler
Jane Somers
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