#doris lessing
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.
—Doris Lessing
“Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don’t seem to see this.”
Doris Lessing
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the golden notebook - doris lessing
the golden notebook - doris lessing
If you’re a writer, should you have kids? From Doris Lessing to Karl Ove Knausgaard, 14 famous writers weigh in.
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“The point is,” said Anna, as her friend came back from the telephone on the landing, “the point is, that as far as I can see, everything’s cracking up.”
-The Golden Notebook (1962) D. Lessing
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Review: The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
Harriet and David are a happy couple who want lots of children, and so they have them. The first four are perfectly ordinary. The fifth child is something else. It’s a simple premise for a horror novel–almost an obvious one–and accordingly, it needs less than 150 pages for the idea to express itself fully.
This is not a gory, blood-pumping horror novel; it’s a tale of suspense. We spend nearly…
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Lisa Robertson | Utopia | R’s Boat
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Alice Notley | To the Suspicious | Phoebe Light
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Doris Lessing | The Golden Notebook
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Anne Carson | The Glass Essay
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