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" I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. "
Doris Lessing
Europe
Whole
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" It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. "
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" I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. "
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" You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. "
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" I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. "
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