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I will write for a few more years to see if I can beat this. Literature gives the reader a second chance at life. Life is writing. The most difficult thing for a political leader is getting intelligent people to do stupid things. When you believe in a cause, nothing is impossible.

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“A novel which does not give the utmost satisfaction to its author is an immoral novel”

Mario Vargas Llosa

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