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" I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life. "
Doris Lessing
Never
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" Pearls mean tears. "
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" As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. "
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" I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war. "
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" I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish. "
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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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" 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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" I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing. "
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" It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. "
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" What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. "
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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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" Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. "
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" When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. "
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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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" Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. "
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" I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. "
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