Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. (Shirley Hazzard)

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

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