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Quote by Doris Lessing
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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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – 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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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

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War is what happens when language fails. – Margaret Atwood

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There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua? – Bianca Jagger

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In war, truth is the first casualty. – Aeschylus (Thanks, Dan)

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