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Quote by Don Delillo
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. – Don DeLillo

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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. – Don Delillo

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The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. – Don DeLillo

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There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. – Don Delillo

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The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why were here: Were here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. – Rainn Wilson

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. – Nadine Gordimer

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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer

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