Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling. (Jeremy Northam)

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Jeremy Northam

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