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Doris Lessing

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.


— Doris Lessing


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


— Doris Lessing


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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


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Small things amuse small minds.


— Doris Lessing


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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.


— Doris Lessing


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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.


— Doris Lessing


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


— Doris Lessing


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A story is how we construct our experiences.


— Doris Lessing


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A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.


— Doris Lessing


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Doris Lessing Society
The Doris Lessing Society is dedicated to supporting the scholarly study of Lessing’s work. Alfred Tayler and his wife moved to Kermanshah Iran in order to take up a job as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia and it was there that Doris was born in 1919.

Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; born 22 October 1919) is a British novelist poet playwright librettist biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950) the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69) The Golden Notebook (1962) The Good Terrorist (1985) and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

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