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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
-Cynthia Ozick
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In The Compact Between Novelist And Reader,

Cynthia Ozick
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
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