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Secretive Quotes (page 54)

Arundhati Roy quote: "Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A..."
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. Arundhati Roy
You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was all said cheerfully. 'How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons. Bernard Cornwell
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. Ralph Waldo Emerson
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted. Terry Prachett
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "There is very seldom any true secret."
There is very seldom any true secret. Diana Wynne Jones
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Concentration is the secret of strength."
Concentration is the secret of strength. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sitting on the floor with her arms round Mrs Ramsay’s knees, close as she could get, smiling to think that Mrs Ramsay would never know the reason of that pressure, she imagined how in the chambers of the mind and heart of the woman who was, physically, touching her, were stood, like the treasures in the tombs of kings, tablets bearing sacred inscriptions, which if one could spell them out, would teach one everything, but they would never be offered openly, never made public. What art was... Virginia Woolf
I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played. George Carlin
Anne Rice quote: "He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive,..."
He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy. Anne Rice
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Frank Herbert quote: "The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they..."
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. Frank Herbert
Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading. Ian Mcewan
Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window? a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief. Alain de Botton
And remember, also...that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow. Norton Juster

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