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“He had come down, He said, to clean the earth
Of the dirtiness of war.
Now tell of why His power failed Him there?
His power did not fail. It was that, simply,
He found how much the people wanted war.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“When one wanted ones interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other peoples tricks.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
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