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"It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true."
"But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too fragile, too vulnerable to bring into the public eye. Tender things with tiny roots tend to wither in the glare of public scrutiny. By holding my awakening within, I contained the energy of it, and it fed me the way blood feeds muscle. It fed me a certain propelling energy, and I kept moving forward."
"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
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"I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff."
"My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as."
"Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make."
"Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse."
"I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize."
"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
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