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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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When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing

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Three centuries after the appearance of Franklins Courant, it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing Americas last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. – Eric Alterman

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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. – David Garrick

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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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