Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
Doris LessingI'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.
Doris LessingThe first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who used to meet once a week with the sole purpose of analyzing the news and trying to work out what we weren't being told. We thought that we were clever, but we had absolutely no idea what was really going on. It was only years later that we learned the true story.
Doris Lessing