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You are most powerful when you are most silent.

Alison McGhee

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Alison McGhee
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: July 8
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Novelist
Writer
New York
United States
Silent
Powerful

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You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
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