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    Doris Lessing

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    My father was always so mingled with rage at his life. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #father #his #life #mingled #rage

    My father was in the First World War. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #first #first world #first world war #war #world

    My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #happily #her #mother #seventies #stroke

    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

    #brother #deal #energy #frustrated #great

    Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #dependent #easily #mechanisms #our #precarious

    Pearls mean tears. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #pearls #tears

    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

    #embarrassed #fantasies #figures #film #film stars

    Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #false #feeling #intolerable #sentimentality

    September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #goes #happened #history #ira #over

    Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. ↗


    — Doris Lessing

    #fame #obtain #others #people #some






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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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