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Doris Lessing

"Some people obtain fame, others deserve it."

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"Some people obtain fame, others deserve it."

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

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"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."

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"This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything."
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"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important."
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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
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"I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains."
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"Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty."
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"She was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing to her interminable. If life had to be looked at in terms of high moments. or peaks, then nothing had 'happened' to her for a long time; snd she could look forward to nothing much but a dwindling away from full household activity into getting old."
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"Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot."
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