Doris Lessing: What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

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English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919)

"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

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