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Napoleon Bonaparte Quote: 'What is history but a fable ...'

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Profession: Leader
Nationality: French
Birthday: August 15, 1769

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For kind of sophisticated art I'm interested in, the larger structural rebuke has to be so subtle that it has to be distributed at an almost sub-atomic level. Otherwise, you fall into the kind of preachy, moralistic fable that I don't think makes for good literature.
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