Secret Quotes
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Even if I tried to tell myself that I had given him nothing, that the children were mostly mine, that they had remained within the radius of my body, subject to my care, still I couldn't avoid thinking what aspects of his nature inevitably lay hidden in them. Mario would explode suddenly from inside their bones, now, over the days, over the years, in ways that were more and more visible. How much of him would I be forced to love forever, without even realizing it, simply by virtue of the fact that I loved them? What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn't die, it doesn't want to die.
Elena Ferrante
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My secret is simple -- I pray.
Mother Teresa -
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
We are always chasing after things that other companies won't touch. That is a big secret to our success.
Norio Ohga -
In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
Stuart Symington -
In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.
Charles E. Bohlen -
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
Seneca the Younger
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The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.
Danielle LaPorte -
The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
Esther Perel -
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
Seneca the Younger -
That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.
Charles Durning -
It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
Richard Russo -
Secrets are never secure because they are always at risk of being found out.
Christopher Bollen
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He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
William Law -
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
Norm MacDonald -
The secret of not having worries, for me at least, is to have ideas.
Eugene Delacroix -
She overcame a moment of hesitation and glanced at Jared. All the lights in his crazy gray eyes were dancing. A shiver went through her, a ripple of his delight. She felt again the way she had at the Crying Pools and at her house, the thrill of sharing your secret soul and having someone think it was wonderful.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
Raymond Carver -
In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.
Carolyn Parkhurst -
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.
Tom Lehrer -
He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.
Ray Bradbury