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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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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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I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – Doris Lessing

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Im tired. Im tired of feeling rejected by the American people. Im tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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War is the province of danger. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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War hath no fury like a noncombatant. – Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment

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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. – Aldous Huxley

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I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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