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Doris Lessing, CH, OBE (born October 22, 1919), is a British writer, born Doris May Taylor in Kermanshah, Persia (Iran). · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

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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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"Some people obtain fame, others deserve it."

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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."

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"What is a hero without love for mankind."

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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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"Laughter is by definition healthy."

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"That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way."

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"Literature is analysis after the event."

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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

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