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However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.
Samuel R. Delany
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"However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence."
— Samuel R. Delany

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However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence. — Samuel R. Delany

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Samuel R. Delany was a Author from United States (1942–present).

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Samuel R. Delany lived from 1942 – present.