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“ What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do, or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ”

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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

~ Doris Lessing

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

~ Doris Lessing

Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

~ Doris Lessing

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

~ Doris Lessing