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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