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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature it is an occupational hazard.
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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