42 quotes found
“Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing.”
“Secret of success is something that will outlast in the life of human being.”
“That is her secret. A poor and precious secret that not even the executioners, the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, History, time-everything that defiles and ...”
“Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it.”
“Never share you secret with a married person for the partner will get to hear of it.”
“even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point”
“Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don't want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.”
“Let me tell you a secret, a tremendous and wonderful secret. Let me share with you something so valuable that any schoolboy would gladly trade his most treasured procession to find out what I shall...”
“Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?""No," Miles conceded."Well, then," she said, as if that settled the matter.”
“We're nobody's dirty little secret.”
“The secret is writing down one simple line after another.”
“[on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery within themselves, and that I think is the...”
“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?”
“Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secr...”
“The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.”
“You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t 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.”
