English - Writer | October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
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.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Small things amuse small minds.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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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.
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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.
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The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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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.
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In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
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What is a hero without love for mankind.
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