I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at. (Andrew Sean Greer)

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

Andrew Sean Greer

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