Doris Lessing's Quote - My father was in the First World War.

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My father was in the First World War. – Doris Lessing

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I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. – Doris Lessing

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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. – Doris Lessing

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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says. – Doris Lessing

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