Norman Spinrad quote — “[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidab…”

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[P]ower, terrible, unprecedented power, and with it came the unavoidable choice that had faced every power-junkie since time began: to have the sheer gall to fake being something greater than a man, or cop-out on the millions who had poured a part of themselves into your image and be something less.

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