It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interes… — Quoted

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“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”

Doris Lessing · Truth

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Doris Lessing

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

History

Doris Lessing

When there's a war, people get married.

War

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Society

Doris Lessing

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Age