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the story was already written

[...] Suppose Paul had said to me, I'll marry you if you promise never to write another word? My God, I would have done it! I would have been prepared to buy Paxil, like an Elise buying Robert Brun. But that would have been a double deception, because the act of writing it was irrelevant-it was not…

—p.299 The Golden Notebook FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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the story was already written

[...] Suppose Paul had said to me, I'll marry you if you promise never to write another word? My God, I would have done it! I would have been prepared to buy Paxil, like an Elise buying Robert Brun. But that would have been a double deception, because the act of writing it was irrelevant-it was not…

—p.299 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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they had been lovers over-long

This situation was heartbreakingly clear to Ella; and she felt, surely, to anyone who examined the couple for as long as five minutes? They had been lovers over-long. She had money, and this was necessary to him. She was desperately, fearfully in love with him. He was fond of her, and already chafi…

—p.298 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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I can feel how this role is not natural to her

[...] She asks me if I'd like another Martini; I am going to refuse, then see she wants one; I say yes. A tension starts in my stomach; then I see it is her tension, communicating itself to me. I look at the controlled defensive handsome face and I'm sorry for her. I understand her life very well. …

—p.277 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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a sort of Brief Encounter With Wings

'Well yes and no. Your story is basically a simple love story. Yes it is. The colour thing is really-yes I know it's desperately important, and I couldn't agree with you more, how utterly beastly the whole thing is, but your story is really a simple moving love story. It's all there, trust me, it…

—p.272 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing