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Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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Doris Lessing

Birthname

AKA: Doris Lessing

Birthday: October 22, 1919

Death: November 17, 2013

Educated At: Dominican Convent High School

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Essayist, Autobiographer, Science Fiction Writer, Playwright, Novelist

Spouse: Gottfried Lessing

Total quotes: 3

“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”

— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook: A Novel

Tagged: Decisions, Future, present

“It was easy to respond to coldness, because it could not hurt me like tenderness.”

— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook: A Novel

Tagged: Coldness, Handling people, kindness

“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.”

— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook: A Novel

Tagged: Read In Your 20s

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