“In this line of work, too much paranoia can be worse than too little.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 5, “High Society” (p. 101)
“Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”
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Thomas Pynchon
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Bleeding Edge
Variant: Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen
Source: Bleeding Edge (2013), p. 11
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