Absorb Quote by Barry Unsworth

“We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.” quote by Barry Unsworth — Download Open image

“We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.”

Barry Unsworth

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