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• ‟ I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

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• ‟ This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

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• ‟ Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

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• ‟ My father was in the First World War.

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• ‟ The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be brought up in an atmosphere of a continual harping on the war.

  - Doris Lessing
  

• ‟ I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

  - Doris Lessing