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The Turkish Gambit (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #2)

by Boris Akunin

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

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Build Your Author Platform: The New Rules: A Literary Agent's Guide to Growing Your Audience in 14 Steps

by Carole Jelen

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William’s Quotes

“Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.”
― Theodore Sturgeon

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“Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.”
― JRR Tolkein

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“Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.”
― Andrei Platonov

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“Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.”
― Karel Čapek, The Absolute at Large

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“Enemies are so stimulating.”
― Katharine Hepburn

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