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

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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says. – Doris Lessing

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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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To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is. He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. – Richard Bach

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