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Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing

English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)

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Awards and Movements

Nobel 2007

Some Poems

All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accomodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society.
That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Laughter is by definition healthy.
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Better Counsel comes overnight.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
A Tribute to Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing on her writing career
Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for Literature (2007) - Newsnight archives
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British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win
Moving Finger Edith Wharton QA Summary | in Hindi Urdu | O Level LLB Part 2 English| Bhutta Academe
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Doris Lessing - Poverty, Indian restaurants and the Great Unmentionable (7/26)
THROUGH THE TUNNEL by Doris Lessing | Mystery, Adventure | Short Stories
Doris Lessing - Let's write a novel! (1/26)
Doris Lessing Interview
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing | Top 125 Books of All-Time Review
Doris Lessing - Solutions come in dreams (18/26)
Doris Lessing - The lamentable gap between writers and academics (8/26)
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Doris Lessing - Who are the little people? (10/23)
Telephone interview with Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing - The Reluctant Heroine
Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing, en el espejo de su obra | Carme Riera
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing | NET | SET | Feminist Literature Series
Doris Lessing - 'She is muscling in on our act': "Shikasta" (23/26)
Alt Shift reads Shikasta by Doris Lessing (1979) [Part 1]
Doris Lessing - 'If Neanderthals, why not dwarfs and gnomes or whatever else?' (11/26)
Doris Lessing - 'Ben is me!': why kids like Ben (16/26)
Doris Lessing - "The Good Terrorist" (25/26)
Doris Lessing - "The Grass is Singing" (3/26)
Doris Lessing - White mistresses and menservants (2/26)
Doris Lessing - Las Cárceles Elegidas
Doris Lessing - How to write non-realistic fiction (12/26)
Interview with Nobel winner Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing - Otra despedida
Doris Lessing - "Canopus in Argos: Archives" (24/26)
Fallece a los 94 años la escritora británica Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing - "The Golden Notebook" (14/26)
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Malou intervjuade Doris Lessing i London 2008
Cuando Doris Lessing recibió el Nobel | Uno Hasta el Fondo, con Gil Gamés
British Author and activist Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish
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MGTOW Interview with Doris Lessing 2001
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