What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don’t now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. — Doris Lessing

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Mini who’s who:

Doris Lessing : English Writer
Born:  October 22, 1919
Died:  November 17, 2013