"I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security risk’] when you write a story. And then they can never back it up. They say that about everything. And it’s like the boy who cried wolf. It’s getting old."

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Source : "James Risen's risk of prison means journalism is being criminalised" by Lindsey Bever, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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“Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.”

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“One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.”

Source : "Food Stamps At The Heart Of Farm Bill Political Drama". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 29, 2013.
“We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.”

Source : "The Quiet Girl". Book by Peter Høeg, 2006.
“Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.”
“Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.”
“I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.”
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”

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“And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.”

Source : Donna Leon (2015). “Death In A Strange Country: (Brunetti 2)”, p.151, Random House

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