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"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
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"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
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"The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera."
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
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"I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip."
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"If it's public, it's not bonding."
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"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."
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"I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl."
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"He didn't have regular email like everyone else. He couldn't afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world."
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"First law of pleasurable love-making in the long run, is that you don't keep naked pictures of your partner on your phone."
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"It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy."
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"Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us."
Etiquette
"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
Privacy
"Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges."
Work
"One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them."
Man
"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."
Time
"Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life."
Life
"The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time."
Life
"Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry."
Concern
"Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them."
People
"Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar."
Originality
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