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Quote by Doris Lessing
There was a time when young people respected learning and literatu

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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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. – Doris Lessing

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Imagination
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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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Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Why dont they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. – Will Rogers

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing

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As you get older, youre always maturing, youre always learning something new about yourself. – Troy Vincent

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