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G.K. Chesterton1 quote
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. — G.K. Chesterton · 1901
Mark Twain1 quote
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Mark Twain · 1897