Doris Lessing's Quote - I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she h

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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 a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the womens movement. – Doris Lessing

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Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. – Doris Lessing

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing

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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. – Kurt Vonnegut

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The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it. – John Podhoretz

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In every war zone that Ive been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. – John le Carre

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Random Quotes

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. – Byron White

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The Utopia the bible seems to want would have people hate evil when it is time to hate and suggests that people who turn away from the world to follow His word would in turn be hated and those people who hate them are to be humiliated in the end. – James Dye

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Paradise, Utopia

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. – Natan Sharansky

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Its a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. Weve got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, its here one minute gone the next. – Kimbra

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