I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. (Colm Tóibín)

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

Colm Tóibín

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