For Fiction is Truth’s elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till somebody had told a story.
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English writer
A Book of Words, ch. 24 “Fiction” (1928)
Added on 23-Feb-17 | Last updated 23-Feb-17
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