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"Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fic..." — Margaret Atwood

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood Novelist • Canadian
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