All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
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Unknown
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.
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Fernando Pessoa
Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the...
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Nick Harkaway
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing...
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Nick Harkaway
Intellectual property, more than ever, is a line drawn around information, which asserts that despite having been set loose in the world - and having, inevitably, been created out of an individual's relationship with the world - that information retains some connection with its author...
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Nick Harkaway
More Quotes By J. D. Salinger
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
