"We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are...












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

More Doris Lessing quotes
"Long ago I decided that at a political meeting the truth usually comes out in just such a speech or a remark ignored at the time because its tone is n...
"The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.
"We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have alway...
"You and I, Ella, we are the failures. We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the gre...
"The real reason why so many artists now take to politics, ‘commitment’ and so on is that they are rushing into a discipline, any discipline at all, wh...