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People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: Hearing Secret Harmonies, Ch. 3.
-- Anthony Powell, (Dec 21 1905-2000), English novelist; He is best known for his autobiographical and satiric 12-volume series of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time.

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