Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that.

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Facts are slippery. The truth is imperfect. Fiction recognizes that.

Salman Rushdie

2015

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Truth vs. fiction Truth Literature

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Interview Magazine

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2015

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Salman Rushdie

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Rushdie, Salman. Interviewed by Alison Beard. Harvard Business Review, Sept. 2015.

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