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Literature Quotes by Doris Lessing
- A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
- And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the…
- Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.
- People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
- Literature is analysis after the event.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- 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…
- A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers…
- For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
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