I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. …

Tom Stoppard
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. ✨ Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). Tom Stoppard in Conversation, p.49, University of Michigan Press
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I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown. ✨ Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). Tom Stoppard in Conversation, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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