Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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