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Kind Quotes by Doris Lessing
- I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind…
- It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.…
- I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
- Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which…
- Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wanting towards every kind of impossible future, the attitude of mind described by…
- Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I…
- I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at…
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