Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CHwas a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 October 1919
september-11 ira terrible
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
time space fiction
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
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The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.
running self world
The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
ordinary feels flats
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
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They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off.
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
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When there's a war, people get married.
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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
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Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.