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Quote by Doris Lessing
The great secret that all old people share is that you really have

The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you dont change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

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What the feminists want of me is something they havent examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. – Doris Lessing

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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing

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I think kids ought to travel. I think its very good to carry kids around. Its good for them. Of course its tough on the parents. – Doris Lessing

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One evil in old age is, that as your time is come, you think every little illness is the beginning of the end. When a man expects to be arrested, every knock at the door is an alarm. – Sydney Smith, letter to Robert Wilmot-Horton, 1836 February 8th

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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. – Stendhal

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