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QUOTATION OF THE DAY "Fiction gave me a very wide space to say what I wanted to say about totalitarian authority." BASMA ABDEL AZIZ, whose acclaimed debut novel, "The Queue," takes place after a failed revolution in an unnamed Middle Eastern city.