Secret Quotes
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Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
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Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
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To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in the Department of Justice. With no defense lawyers present, they need only show probable cause that the target is an 'agent of a foreign power' engaged in intelligence gathering against the United States.
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The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.
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The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
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I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.
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The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other. The goal of marriage is unity and oneness, as well as self-development. Paradoxically, the more we serve one another, the greater is our spiritual and emotional growth.
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The secret of love is seeking variety in your life...
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I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
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One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.
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Success is more about doing the things you know you should do than discovering the secrets you don't yet know.
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Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.
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Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.
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The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.
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Be temperate in your drinking, remembering that too much wine cannot keep either a secret or a promise.
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It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
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The secret of life is... everything is out of control.
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The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.
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The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
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Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.
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Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public. Ultimately, we respond to someone who's capable of doing heroic things but has issues or problems in their life that they can't seem to resolve. I believe audiences identify with that. All of us have those secrets and those things that we wish we could improve about ourselves. And when you have someone who's heroic and flawed, I think it makes us feel better about ourselves.
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In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.
