Quotes About Concealment

Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die.

She couldn't see me or she would have known that I thought she was beautiful.

Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a baby's beshatted diaper, as one might pinch a recently benutted condom. You glance at the offending passages. Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

She took off her glasses and put them in my hand. 'You know, without these, I can't see anything. What's funny is that it's like no one else can see me either. Isn't it strange? I kind of feel invisible.

Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside

We lived under the shadow and cover of such naiveté.

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself.

Error never shows itself in its naked reality, in order not to be discovered. On the contrary, it dresses elegantly, so that the unwary may be led to believe that it is more truthful than truth itself. IRENAEUS OF LYONS

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

Het is onduidelijk of iemand een masker heeft opgezet of het juist heeft laten vallen.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Oppenheimer argued that concealing information about the bomb increased the danger of misunderstandings

Every Fader has the key," Jack assures me, and puts his finger in the key hole. I realize then that it must be one of the fancy biometric locks the Faders love so much. "The key hole is just in case someone wanders in by accident. They just think it's an old storage room, or a mine, or something. They don't see the level of technology that's here.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.

Hide yourself under a bushel quickly, for if your real usefulness were known to the world you would soon be knocked down to the highest bidder by the public auctioneer.

Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily routine are as much a commentary of racial ideals as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

The truths we conceal don't disappear Raheen, they appear in different forms

The truth isn't just what you see with your eyes. Not just what you see...

sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.

I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.

I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.