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Sheri S. Tepper on Power

1929–2016 United States

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3 quotes

“You think staying in power is why they do it?”
“That’s usually the reason for arbitrary cruelty.”

Six Moon Dance (1998)

His understanding is not great, but his sense of power and treachery is unfailing.

The Search of Mavin Manyshaped (1985)

I reflected that a little taste of power could take a reasonably sensible person and make some kind of groveling, cringing thing of him.

Wizard's Eleven (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sheri S. Tepper (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.