There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. — Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. — Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. — Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. — Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. — Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

— Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
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