Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people,…

Neil Gaiman
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Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. ✨ Neil Gaiman (2016). The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, p.175, Hachette UK
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Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over. ✨ Neil Gaiman (2016). The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction, p.175, Hachette UK

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