We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Doris Lessing
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  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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