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Quotes by Doris Lessing
- We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
- 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.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
- When there's a war, people get married.
- When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
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