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But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. that novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. the characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. what happened to them? they all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
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But To Be Perfectly Frank, This Childish

John Green
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. that novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. the characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. what happened to them? they all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
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