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Doris Lessing Quotes: 7

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
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 you know quite well you're capable of better.
The Golden Notebook
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.