"Do you know what people really want? Everyone,……" — Doris Lessing
"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 could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth."
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Doris Lessing
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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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