[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Jeanette Winterson
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal...
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal...
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal...
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal...
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Often, what we feel is not what actually happens. Fiction and poetry are medicines that heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination. They are doses that allow us to escape what we experience in life, so chances of falling down can be lessened.

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