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Doris Lessing Quotes about Truth

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

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

Doris Lessing
Inspirational, Truth, Terrible
Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.52, Heinemann

We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing
Truth, Stupid, Fighting
Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Doris Lessing
Jobs, Truth, Writing
"Under My Skin". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1994.

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