Doris Lessing | money
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Doris Lessing | learning
What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
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Doris Lessing | learning
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Doris Lessing | imagination
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.
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Doris Lessing | history
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn’t that terrible.
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Doris Lessing | great
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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