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“Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.”

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Book:The White Man and the Pachinko Girl
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“Reporters go through four stages in a war zone. In the first stage, you’re Superman, invincible. In the second, you’re aware that things are dangerous and you need to be careful. In the third, you conclude that math and probability are working against you. In the fourth, you know you’re going to die because you’ve played the game too long. I was drifting into stage three.”

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Book:And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
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“He asked us what we were doing, and our smuggler said, “Oh, nothing. We’re just hanging out”—as if lots of Americans in ninja suits loitered around Syria in the middle of the afternoon. We asked him if he had a cell phone. He didn’t, which meant we had twenty or thirty minutes to get back across the Turkish border.”

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Book:And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
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