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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she h

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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I think kids ought to travel. I think its very good to carry kids around. Its good for them. Of course its tough on the parents. – Doris Lessing

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