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" Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. "

Virginia Woolf

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Facts

Fact

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" I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write. "

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" The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. "