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...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.

…all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
– Rebecca Makkai

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