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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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What society doesnt realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they dont now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. – Doris Lessing

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We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped. – Harriet Tubman

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Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War – both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. Theres a pulse to it. – Diane Kruger

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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. – George McGovern

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