A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a dista…

Graham Greene
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ✨ Graham Greene (1993). Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader, Carcanet Press Ltd.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ✨ Graham Greene (1993). Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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