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First Quotes by Doris Lessing
- You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way…
- It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.
- 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…
- My father was in the First World War.
- Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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