"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it."
-Manuel Puig
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"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.“
-Manuel Puig
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"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
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"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."
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"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
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"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing it makes you feel like an idiot."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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