In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

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