It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60