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I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Ideas Never Now Will Write

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It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

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Topics: Book Eighteen Me Months Takes Year

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The human race has been telling stories since it began.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Been Began Human Human Race Race Since Stories Telling

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A story is how we construct our experiences.

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Topics: Construct Experiences How Our Story

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I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

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Topics: Boring Pretty

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I never stopped reading.

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Topics: Never Reading Stopped

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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Absolutely British British Empire Could Disappeared Empire Empires End Ever Girl Idea Inconceivable Just Know Like Other You

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God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.

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Topics: Ever Generation God Knows Learns Nobody Why

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I'm just a story teller.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Just Story Teller

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I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Unhappy Very Writing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 22nd, 1919

Died: November 17th, 2013

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