Doris Lessing

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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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age

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

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alone

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

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best

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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change

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

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dreams

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

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funny

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

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government

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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great

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

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history

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

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imagination

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