"I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties."

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And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

— Curtis Sittenfeld