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"Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US."
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"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."
"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."
"Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law."
"I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse."
"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
"Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory..."
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"I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated."
"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."
"I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is."
"Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt so bad the morning after."
"In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power."
"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it."
"Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do."
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