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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
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Pearls mean tears.
Doris Lessing
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
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It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'
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Parents should leave books lying around marked 'forbidden' if they want their children to read.
Doris Lessing -
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Doris Lessing -
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Doris Lessing
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I'm just a story teller.
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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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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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing -
Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
Doris Lessing -
I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
Doris Lessing
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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
Doris Lessing -
Small things amuse small minds.
Doris Lessing -
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
Doris Lessing -
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
Doris Lessing -
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
Doris Lessing -
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
Doris Lessing
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My father was in the First World War.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Doris Lessing -
It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
Doris Lessing -
I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.
Doris Lessing