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Words Quotes by Doris Lessing
- I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.
- Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
- For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I…
- I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing
- I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
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