"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."

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Source : Doris May Lessing (1981). “The Golden Notebook”, Bantam

Doris Lessing

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.”
“Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.”
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
“If I could have a special power in real life I'd love to fly.”
“We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.”
“I said I wouldn't leave her.”
“World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.”
“The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.”

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