“If you can’t be inconspicuous, be so damned conspicuous that nobody can miss you. And that in itself is a fair concealment. How many people can accurately describe a street riot?”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley, book The Door Through Space

Source: The Door Through Space (1961), Chapter 7.

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