Doris Lessing Quotes

So A War Begins. Into A Peace-time Life, Comes An Announcement, A Threat. A Bomb Drops Somewhere, Potential Traitors Are Whisked Off Quietly To Prison. And For Some Time, Days, Months, A Year Perhaps, Life Has A Peace-time Quality, Into Which War-like Events Intrude. But When A War Has Been Going On For A Long Time, Life Is All War, Every Event Has The Quality Of War, Nothing Of Peace Remains. Events And The Life In Which They Are Embedded Have The Same Quality. But Since It Is Not Possible That Events Are Not Part Of The Life They Occur In
It Is Not Possible That A Bomb Should Explode Into A Texture Of Life Foreign To It
All That Means Is That One Has Not Understood, One Has Not Been Watching.

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