42 quotes found
“How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?”
“I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.”
“A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.”
“Secrets affect you more than youd think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someonell discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret...”
“This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.”
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. ...”
“To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.”
“The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.”
“You see, a secret is not something untold. Its something which cant be told.”
“We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.”
“Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.”
“It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.”
“No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.”
“The secret is that there is no secret.”
“Everyone has secret.Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with opalescent layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound. Some of us devote our entire lives to ...”
“Some things were secret even after you told them.”
“Once you open up a secret, it starts leaking out all over.”
“The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it.”
