To be in love with a country or a political regime is a tricky business. You get your heart broken even more surely than by being in love with a person.
Doris Lessing Quotes
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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| Birth: | 22nd October, 1919 |
| Death: | 17th November, 2013 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer |
About
Doris May Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Persia. She was a British novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. Her final book, Alfred and Emily, appeared in 2008.
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