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Doris Lessing

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So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.


— Doris Lessing


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Aber ist es nicht außerordentlich merkwürdig, wie einem der Zufall Bücher in die Hände spielt, die etwas mit der eigenen Situation oder Lebensphase zu tun haben?


— Doris Lessing


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All my friends' mothers were appalling women.


— Doris Lessing


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All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.


— Doris Lessing


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Small things amuse small minds.


— Doris Lessing


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


— Doris Lessing


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A story is how we construct our experiences.


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


— 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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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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