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Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own Quotes: Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
         

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.


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