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"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"

"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."

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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."

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