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"Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read."
Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
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Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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You want me to begin a novel with The two women were alone in the London flat?
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None of you ask for anything except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some ...
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate...
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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by b...
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