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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.

Source:Chapter XV. A Gossip on Romance, Page 268
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Robert Louis Stevenson (Memories and Portraits Quotes)
  • Book: Memories and Portraits
  • Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Genre: Essays
  • Published: 1887
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