English - Writer | October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing
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We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
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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.
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Pearls mean tears.
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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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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There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
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