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In some respects, the intelligence profession resembles monastic life with the disciplines and personal sacrifices reminiscent of medieval orders. —THE U.S. SENATE'S CHURCH COMMITTEE
In the fullness of your youth, you're asking to be admitted into the most severe form of worship in the Church. The Carthusians. There's nothing more extreme. It's the total denial of a human being as a social animal. The eremitic way. For the rest of your life, you'd live alone in a cell. Except for an hour of leisure, you'd do nothing but pray. It's complete deprivation. Solitude.”
“Paranoia will save your life. In your world, boyos, it's crazy not to be paranoid. Assume the bastards are against you. All the time. Everywhere.”
