Doris Lessing Quotes About War Of The Worlds

Quotes about: War Of The Worlds

• The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.

  Doris Lessing

  War, Thinking, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

• The 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

  Clever, War, People

  Source: progressive.org

• I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, War, Writing

• My father was in the First World War.

  Doris Lessing

  Father, War, World

  Doris Lessing (2003). “A Home for the Highland Cattle and the Antheap”, p.142, Broadview Press

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

  Doris Lessing

  War, Distance, World

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