“Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.”
Dan Brown book Deception Point
Source: Deception Point
“Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.”
Quoted in "After Stanley Kubrick" (18 August 2010), an interview of his wife Christiane Kubrick in The Guardian
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