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# R.M. Koster

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Richard Morton Koster (1934) is an American novelist best known for the Tinieblas trilogy—The Prince (1972), The Dissertation (1975), Mandragon (1979)—set in an imaginary Central American republic much like Panama, the author's home for many years. He is the author, besides, of two other novels, Car

##  Quotes by R.M. Koster

> [“A careful fake is better than the truth. The truth lacks realism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-m-koster/a-careful-fake-is-better-than-the-truth-the-truth-lacks-realism/)

R.M. Koster

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