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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Anything Equipped Everything Going How Just Know Layer Peasants People Run Things Understand Up Who Work World

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What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Better Capable First-Rate Know Like Love Need Pretend Quite Second-Rate Terrible Well Work You Your

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There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Bias Boy Girl Growing Growing Up Having Listen Man Must Our Painful Society Terrible Unconscious Up Wonderful Young Young Man

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There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Always Because Feel Flat Lives Living Ordinary Sense Writers

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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.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Beginning Born Construct Died End Experiences How Humanity Legacy Lived Middle Minds Most Our Precious Simplest Songs Stories Story Storytelling Structure Very Wisdom

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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

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Topics: Angel Faults Friend Love Trust Without Woman

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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.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: American Back Goes Happened History Ira Over September Terrible The History Of

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Alone Always Exciting Last Life Only Rejuvenating Remains Satisfying Stimulating Third Work

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I'm compulsive.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Compulsive

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I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Been Happier Marriage Married Much Talents Than Think Unmarried

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 22nd, 1919

Died: November 17th, 2013

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