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Quotes About Conceal

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.
~ Samuel Butler
The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history -- which is of course part of natural history -- and pass it on in falsified form just because it is customary to do so, when we know that all history is falsified and always transmitted in falsified form.
~ Thomas Bernhard
You really are a crybaby. Are you going to face Allen like this?" "Oh well…don't tell anybody, okay?" "As if I would.
~ Katsura Hoshino
Man, the mask of God
~ Ken Wilber
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
~ Busta Rhymes
He melded into the crowd, sidling around them so they wouldn't look at his singed butt, and the more he thought about it the more he realized he was glad he hadn't had access to his badge. He retrieved his clothing and the saddlebag and melded into the night.
~ C.J. Box
What happened after that, and will be related later, was something entirely unexpected and so awful that Ludens had never spoken about it afterwards to anyone.
~ Iris Murdoch
I feel so depressed. I have to be merry and bright while I just want to cry.
~ Iris Murdoch
My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
~ Quentin Tarantino
TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.
~ Claire Fox
I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.
~ Susan Kay
It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.
~ Jodi Kantor
I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now. -Luciana
~ Susan Kay
I felt myself blush with disappointment. I looked away, afraid that they would see it.
~ Susanna Moore
Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.
~ Suzanne Collins
I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.
~ Suzanne Collins
Panic begins to set in. I can't stay here. Flight is essential… But I can't let my fear show.
~ Suzanne Collins
So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do
~ Suzanne Collins
It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.
~ Suzanne Collins
She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.
~ Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds
It's really difficult to pretend that you are happy when you actually are not in a state to face someone!!
~ Sachin Jha, Let Love Speak
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer. Citra expected she never spoke of this to anyone else, and would probably never speak of it again.
~ Neal Shusterman
Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it.
~ Neal Shusterman