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Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook Quotes: Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
         

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.


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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
         



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