I dont want to be told when I wake up, terrified by a dream of total annihilation, because of the H-bomb exploding, that people felt that way about the cross-bow. It isnt true. There is something new in the world. And I dont want to hear, when Ive had an encounter with some mogul in the film industry, who wields the kind of power over mens minds that no emperor ever did, and I come back feeling trampled on all over, that Lesbia felt like that after an encounter with her wine-merchant. And I dont want to be told when I suddenly have a vision (though God knows its hard enough to come by) of a life that isnt full of hatred and fear and envy and competition every minute of the night and the day that this is simply the old dream of the golden age brought up to date
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Doris Lessing was a 20th-century British novelist. Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia →