There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement.

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We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

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Doris Lessing talk about the pernicious artist-as-exemplar theme

I'm feeling sad in looking for a fiction book to elate me. Doris Lessing always did, so I'm #reading #GoldenNotebook

“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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