"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
-Doris Lessing
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"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.“
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"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer."
-Doris Lessing
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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
-Doris Lessing
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"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
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"For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying."
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