"The marriages between zones three, four and five" - Doris Lessing

"And they woke together in the dusk, close, healed as if of some frightful and unnatural separation that had afflicted them, unforeseen and unforeseeably, and now had vanished away, leaving them breathing together lightly and at peace."

"Shikasta" - Doris Lessing

"It was countered by the Scandinavian Youth Section of the League for the Care f the Coasts with reference to tyrannical enslavers, jailors of free thought, and perverted diverters of the true currents of soaring human development into the muddied channels of repetetive rhetoric."

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"This dazzling exchange was halted by the Norwegian Youth Against Air Pollution, her blond plaits swinging, and her breasts all agog, while she shouted that this was feeble hogwash masquerading under the guise of free and flexible thinking and was no more than she expected from so many male prisoners of their own decaying doctrines."