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I was thrilled to be rehired for the 1919 'Follies.' Mr. Ziegfeld himself hired me. To me, that particular 'Follies' was his greatest 'Follies' of all - not because I was in the show, but because of the great cast and memorable music.

~Doris Eaton Travis

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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

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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

~Doris Lessing

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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

~Doris Lessing

Topics: Ability Brother Deal Energy Frustrated Great Great Deal Had Me Mother She Very Who Woman

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I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

~Doris Lessing

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I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

~Doris Lessing

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Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.

~Dorothea Benton Frank

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And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

~Dorothea Benton Frank

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Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

~Dorothea Dix

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By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

~Dorothea Dix

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