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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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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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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. – Doris Lessing

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Cats
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Doris Lessing
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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John Morley

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Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as the intelligent layperson does exist – in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning. – Stephen Jay Gould

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Learning

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way youre living your life. I wouldnt compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where its about a man who doesnt appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that. – Adam Sandler

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Learning

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what theyre learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting. – Norton Juster

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