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Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
English Writer
Born: Oct 22, 1919
Died: Nov 17, 2013
Always Me People Think World You
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. Doris Lessing
Life Work Alone Only Remains Exciting Always Stimulating Satisfying Last Third Rejuvenating
I never stopped reading. Doris Lessing
Reading Never Stopped
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. Doris Lessing
You Library Political Free Tell Temporary No-One Institutions Most Democratic Read Because How Confined
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. Doris Lessing
Water Air Embodied Given Shape Cat Diagram Fish Movement Subtle Pattern Then
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. Doris Lessing
Vote World Run Nobel Nobel Prize Industry Jump Prize Get Committee Tune Themselves Publishing
We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always. Doris Lessing
Think Everything Solve Like Always
It's very interesting what you don't care about. Doris Lessing
You Care About Very dont Care Interesting
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. Doris Lessing
Best Oneself Only Sin Real Anything Persuade Second
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. Doris Lessing
Time Science Space Become Our Our Time Science Fiction Dialect Fiction
You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. Doris Lessing
You Married Civil Civil Servant Red Servant
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. Doris Lessing
Me Better Before Think Thinking Someone Give Had Nobel Dead Were Off Now
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. Doris Lessing
Religion Me Witness Examined Something Bear Because Feminists Want
My father was in the First World War. Doris Lessing
War World Father First First World First World War World War
My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. Doris Lessing
Great Me Woman Mother Great Deal Energy Ability Brother Had She Deal Very Frustrated Who
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. Doris Lessing
War World Mother About Write Had She Messed Messed Up Been Up Wanted Should World War World War I
It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. Doris Lessing
Me Book Year Months Takes Eighteen
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. Doris Lessing
Writing Think Telling Terms Am Optimism Story Pessimism
A story is how we construct our experiences. Doris Lessing
Our Construct How Experiences Story
I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. Doris Lessing
Boring Pretty
God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. Doris Lessing
God Generation Nobody Knows Learns Why Ever
I'm just a story teller. Doris Lessing
Teller Just Story
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. Doris Lessing
Funny Sometimes Think Way Write Quiet
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. Doris Lessing
Love Carried Writer Idea Falls Gets Away
I haven't got the energy to write now. Doris Lessing
Energy Write Got Now
What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible. Doris Lessing
People World Seen Revolution Some Horrible About Most Feminist Produced Really Stand Ever
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. Doris Lessing
You Women First Say Fact Like Years Mould Very Five Escape Cannot Whether Much Your
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