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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.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Air Cat Diagram Embodied Fish Given Movement Pattern Shape Subtle Then Water

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Deserve Fame Obtain Others People Some Some People

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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

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Topics: Been Ever Laws Never Nor Novel

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Literature is analysis after the event.

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Topics: After Analysis Event Literature

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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Become Dialect Fiction Our Our Time Science Science Fiction Space Time

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Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

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Topics: Bad Chance God Good He Man Too Who Work

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Abstraction Destroy Himself Interests Other Person Picture Some Terrible Truth

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Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Cut Embarrassed Fantasies Figures Film Like Met Never People Pleasure Royalty Stars Them Who

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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Civil Married Red Servant You

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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Dreams Entered Like Needed Our Parents Recurring Use

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 22nd, 1919

Died: November 17th, 2013

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