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My father was in the First World War. - Doris Lessing
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. - Doris Lessing
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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. - Doris Lessing
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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. - Doris Lessing
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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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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. - Doris Lessing
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. - Doris Lessing
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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. - Doris Lessing
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I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know what - the literary equivalent of a shower. Something that would start them thinking in a slightly different way, perhaps. That's what I think writers are for. - Doris Lessing
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Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. - Doris Lessing
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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. - Doris Lessing
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. - Doris Lessing
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. - Doris Lessing
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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. - Doris Lessing
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What is a hero without love for mankind. - Doris Lessing
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Small things amuse small minds. - Doris Lessing
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Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. - Doris Lessing
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing
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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. - Doris Lessing
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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. - Doris Lessing
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. - Doris Lessing
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