If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004
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There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCEven a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823