Doris Lessing quotes
What's terrible is to pretend that 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. 
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. 
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. 
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.