This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.

Doris Lessing
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  1. Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. - Jonathan Safran Foer

  2. There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. - Shannon L. Alder

  3. Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise. - Aaron BenZeev

  4. How sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet - Robert Browning

  5. Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. - Orhan Pamuk

More Quotes By Doris Lessing
  1. Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

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

  3. Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

  4. Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

  5. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

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