We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may con… - Doris Lessing

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We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate. But when the Gods explode, or err, or dissolve into flying clouds of gas, or shrink, or expand, or whatever else their fates might demand, then the minuscule items of their substance may in their small ways express — not protest, which of course is inappropriate to their station in life — but an acknowledgement of the existence of irony: yes, they may sometimes allow themselves — always with respect — the mildest possible grimace of irony.

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About Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing (22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British writer, born Doris May Tayler. In October 2007, Lessing became the eleventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in its 106-year history, and its oldest ever recipient.

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Birth Name: Doris May Tayler
Native Name: Doris May Lessing
Alternative Names: Jane Somers
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I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.

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