<bq author="Doris Lessing" source="The Telegraph" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/04/21/sv_dorislessing.xml&page=3" caption="Doris Lessing: prize fighter">Yes I called Marxism 'the sweetest dream' in one of my books. Then I discovered it was all a load of old socks. It seems incredible now that quite intelligent people believed in it all. What doubts there were were expressed in sly jokes. The jokes contradicted everything we believed in. We used to joke about how we were wrong about everything.</bq>