Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places,…

Neil Gaiman
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Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives. ✨ American Gods. Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.
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