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Quote by Doris Lessing
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know h

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing

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When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing

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