Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 1919 |
Geburtsort | Qajar_Iran |
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Beschreibung | Doris May Lessing CH OMG (geb. Tayler; 22. Oktober 1919 - 17. November 2013) war eine britisch-simbabwische Schriftstellerin. Sie wurde als Tochter britischer Eltern im Iran geboren, wo sie bis 1925 lebte. Ihre Familie zog dann nach Südrhodesien (heute Simbabwe), wo sie bis zu ihrem Umzug nach London, England, im Jahr 1949 blieb. Zu ihren Romanen gehören The Grass Is Singing (1950), die fünf Romane umfassende Reihe Children of Violence (1952-1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985) und die fünf Romane, die unter dem Titel Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979-1983) zusammengefasst sind. |
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
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.
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
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.
It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
