Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examinat…

John Updike
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. ✨ John Updike (2012). Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism, p.92, Random House
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