Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it move — Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it move — Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it move — Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it move — Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it move — Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
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Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts as well as engaging their minds.

— Ian Leslie, Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
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