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Quote by Doris Lessing
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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – 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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Truth
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Doris Lessing
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Theres an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. – Doris Lessing

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Society
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Doris Lessing
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Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truths sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. – Louisa May Alcott

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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it. – Edward de Bono

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Why shouldnt truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. – Mark Twain

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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty. – Tacitus

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