Adam Roberts - Diana Quotes

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Eva is perfectly content with her academic research, said Diana. She just isn't interested in power. As I say those sentences, she added, clasping her knees to her chest, I can tell they're both wrong. Aren't they? Of course she's interested in power.
She's a human being, agreed Iago.

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Diana got that seventh-sense intimation that she had touched on an unmentionable matter; although a strangely involuted one whereby the fact that it was unmentionable was itself unmentionable.

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I shouldn't be naive Diana said. Of course, realising its destructive power only makes them want it more. Of course. Even more than great wealth, power craves technologies of destruction. Good to be wealthy, but better to remain in power—and the more awe-inspiring the weaponry at your disposal, the better able you are to do that.

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