Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

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• Winston Churchill

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• Kanye West

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• Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• Theodore Roosevelt

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• Ernest Hemingway

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• Pope Francis

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