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"Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend."
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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."
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"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."
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"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."
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Personal Development

"Positive life, positive action."
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"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."
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"One of the man's major purposes is to have dominion over the earth, in the same way as God hasdominion over the universe."
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"You can break through every barrier with persistent effort."
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"You can conquer any mountain with faith, hope and courage."
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"But you - women like you are dangerous- ominous " take care, Love " men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity..."
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"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."
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"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."
Humor

"Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are."
Positivity

"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."
Memory

"War is what happens when language fails."
War

"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
Storytelling

"The internet is 95 percent porn and spam."
Emotion

"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
Emotion

"After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself. Just when you need it, just when you could use an arm or a leg, suddenly the body has other things to do. It falters, it buckles under you; it melts away as if made of snow, leaving nothing much. Two lumps of coal, an old hat, a grin made of pebbles. The bones dry sticks, easily broken."
Mortality

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
Beginning

"You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer."
Writing
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