Doris Lessing - What society doesn't realize i...

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

English Writer

Born: Oct 22, 1919

Died: Nov 17, 2013

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Respect, Learning, People, Past, Society, Books, Respected, Disappeared, Very, In The Past, Ordinary, Literature, Ordinary People, Realize, Much, Whole, Serious, Now

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