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In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.
Percy Lubbock
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Percy Lubbock
Age: 86 †
Born: 1879
Born: June 4
Died: 1965
Died: August 2
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