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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#destroy #himself #interests #other #person

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

— Doris Lessing

#eighteen #me #months #takes #usually

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#bonus #give #lovely #money #nobel

It's very interesting what you don't care about. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#care #interesting #very #you

Literature is analysis after the event. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#analysis #event #literature

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#conservative #current #despite #ideology #men

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

— Doris Lessing

#father #his #life #mingled #rage

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead. ↗

— Jewel

#dead #feel #half #i #i feel

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

— Doris Lessing

#happily #her #mother #seventies #stroke

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#any #become #i #regular #subculture