“In my business, fear is a sane and very healthy emotion. That's because death and disaster aren't abstractions. They're as goddamn real as real can be.”

—  Carl Hiaasen

Source: Novels, Lucky You (1997), Chapter 5

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journalist, columnist and novelist from the United States 1953

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