Quotes About Privacy

What happened in the nightmare was something no one else ever needed to know. Conor

This planet is information' the Mayor says. 'All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you an I have done [...]' 'Or you can open yourself to it completely,; I say.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you ave any of yerself left at all?

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

Some places had names. Some places changed, or they were shy about their names. Some places had no names at all, and that was always sad. It was one thing to be private. But to have no name at all? How horrible. How lonely.

You go rummaging around in other people's lives. You hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things. But you don't." He looked hard at the scribe. "When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.

Eavesdropping is a deplorable habit, but I have developed worse ones since.

There are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart.

there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most

Ella me enseñó que no debía hacer nada en privado de lo que no quisiera que se hablara en público

She taught me I should never do anything in private that I didn't want talked about in public, and cautioned me to not talk in my sleep.

if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city - even if it was just the door to a shared toilet - if this one, most essential freedom was taken away from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

But if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city--even if it was just the door to a shared toilet--if this one, most essential freedom was taken from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

As a wise man named Ben Franklin once said, those who would sacrifice liberty for security desire neither. I

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.

I hear her slip into bed with him, and I hear everything that happens after that. Sex is such a strange and sloppy business, why bother to recount every slurp and moan that ensued? Tom and Honey deserve their privacy, and for that reason I will end my report of the night's activities here. If some readers object, I ask them to close their eyes and use their imaginations.

A book is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy

We recognized the face he was wearing as a mask from our own collections. The happy mask we carry in our back pockets, and like bank robbers whip out when we want to steal some privacy or make an emotional getaway.

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

I used to hang a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my office door, but people interpreted this as "His door is closed, but he wants me to know he's in there. I'll knock.") Be

That is the problem with being twelve. All the grown-ups think they have a right to know your business.