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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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 wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing

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Man is an imagining being. – Gaston Bachelard

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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. – Doris Day

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I suppose Im proudest of my novels for whats imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. – John Irving

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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