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Quote by Doris Lessing
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – 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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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

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They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people. – Margaret Mahy

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. – Carl Sagan

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If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. – Sandra Bernhard

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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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