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In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.

Rohinton Mistry

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Rohinton Mistry
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 3
Writer
Bombay
Fiction
Hears
Memories
Broads
Imagination
Broad
Impossible
Ingredients
Autobiographical
Sense
Separate
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Two
Witness
Witnesses
Everything
Memory
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