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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
— Doris Lessing
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The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of their absent…
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Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to…
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Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.
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The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.
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When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A…
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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked…
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What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope? What but fear winged the birds, and hunger…
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