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"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
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"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."

"Without security it is difficult for a woman to look or feel beautiful."

"I tapped my cup to his, grateful to have found Shaun, because for a minute there, I'd thought I was going to have to save myself. Instead, I'd wandered into the protective care of a sexy older man."

"Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities."

"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."

"We are willing to take concrete steps to enhance cooperation in cyber security, de-radicalization and Counter Terrorism."
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"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."

"I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers."

"When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way."

"It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die."

"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
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