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how many times in your life do you feel that kind of power inspo/collective-power

The fifth day of the takeover would be dawning in a few hours. The feeling of excitement and purpose was palpable everywhere. How many times in your life do you feel that kind of power, the sort that unifies a people in collective pride and knowing? This time, you and your people get to choose. It'…

—p.380 I Hotel 1973: Int'l Hotel (373) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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youth's supposed to have adventures

It's not easy to get into a boat with three people you don't know and go rowing off toward your destiny. If someone said, "Hey, get into this boat, it's going to change your life," would you do it? That's the trickery of being young. You figure, what the hell. I've never done this before. You've go…

—p.373 1973: Int'l Hotel (373) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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have you even asked Chinatown?

2.3 We may have to plan, said Ben, for the possibility of an insurrection in which we hold out in the I-Hotel.

2.4 You know we have our stash hidden, suggested a member. _We could easily funnel it into the hotel, arm the place to the teeth. Once under attack, we could draw all of Chinatown…

—p.361 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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I do not offer the old smooth prizes topic/love

9.1 Olivia said:

I do not offer the old smooth prizes,
but offer rough new prizes.
These are the days that must happen to us.
We shall not heap up what is called riches;
we shall scatter with lavish hand all that we earn or achieve.
However sweet the laid-up stores,
however c…

—p.348 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita
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your friend is your needs answered topic/love

8.2 Your friend is your needs answered. She is your field, which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And she is your board and your fireside. For you come to her with your hunger, and you seek her for peace.

8.3 _When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own min…

—p.347 1972: Inter-national Hotel (295) by Karen Tei Yamashita