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At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks.
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon
Born: Sep 26, 1962

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Possibilities, Jobs, Part, Partners, Begin, Debts, Escape, Fewer, Getting, Children, Fiction, Literary, Literary Fiction, Realise, Which, Us, Speaks

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