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Quotes About Concealment

Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
~ Walker Percy
Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.
~ Terry Pratchett, Mort
Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious — nobody saw me.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I have a few cavities. I don't like to call them cavities, though - I like to call them 'places to put stuff'. 'Do you know where I can store a pea' 'Yes, I have some locations available.'
~ Mitch Hedberg
The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.
~ Harold Pinter
When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?
~ Steven Wright
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
~ Alice Meynell
The way I figure it, if you can't tell I'm high by looking at me, I win.
~ Marc Maron
I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.
~ Mike Birbiglia
Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.
~ Garrison Keillor
To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.
~ Milton Jones
I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but none came to mind at the time.
~ Yahtzee Croshaw, Jam
There is new information.""Are you going to share it?""No."Of course not. Because it would totally ruin his whole mysterious vibe. Can't have that.
~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, King's
...but I'd learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them.
~ Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand
The real mystery isn't what's under the redaction mark, but what's above it.
~ The Covert Comic
Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p
~ Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
They say you can judge a person by their book, but I say they will hide under the covers.
~ Mozaiah Thompson
First rule of Angel Club, you do not talk about Angel Club.
~ Cynthia Hand, Hallowed
It's always more intriguing to imagine what's happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.
~ Sofia Coppola
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.
~ Keiynan Lonsdale
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.
~ Charles de Lint