"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
-Doris Lessing
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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."
-Doris Lessing
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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."
-Doris Lessing
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"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
-George Orwell
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
-John Stuart Mill
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"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
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-Albert Einstein
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