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Needs Quotes by Doris Lessing
- None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
- Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why…
- I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.
- 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…
- What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to…
- Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are…
- The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it...when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any…
- 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…
- When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so reduced,…
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