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Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Always Black Black And White Quite Simple Things White

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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Begging Better Borrowing Interest Just Lending Much Stealing Than

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Small things amuse small minds.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Amuse Minds Small Small Minds Small Things Things

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I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Am Optimism Pessimism Story Telling Terms Think Writing I Am

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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

Topics: Body Causes Change Changed Changes Confusion Course Eighty Great Old Old People People Really Secret Seventy Share Years You Your Your Body

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What is a hero without love for mankind.

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Topics: Hero Love Mankind Without

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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.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: About Atmosphere Badly Because Both Both My Parents Brought Child Children Damaged Emotionally Exactly Exactly What Father Know Like Mentally Parents Physically Really Up War Were World World War World War I

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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

Topics: Any Anywhere Being Blossom Capacities Given Human Hundred Opportunity Simply Talents Unexpected Will

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When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Going Lake Lovely Peace Profoundly Sail Think Untrue You Young

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Pearls mean tears.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Mean Pearls Tears

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 22nd, 1919

Died: November 17th, 2013

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