Quotes About Concealment

He laughed. He had a similar appliance in his truck, a Lo-Jack, and where it was installed nobody knew. "I get it." "Good man. If you have any questions or concerns, you can call us, right?" "Right.

husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light (203): Michael Wex, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005), p. 93.   Yiddish's

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding.

tightly drawn into a mask of endurance.

turn all the mirrors to the wall.

I was not transparent, that she could not see straight through me

Just what kind of a person are you, Miss Lea?" I fixed my mask in place before replying

mask of white makeup and the exotic draperies.

There was nothing to see; the mist that hung in the air made everything invisible that was more than a short distance away.

Being invisible had its advantages.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious. SUN TZU

There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us.

the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

We are so customed to disguise ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.

That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.

Because: if our secret defines us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified Field Theory. A secret about a secret.

That is to say: I wanted to maintain the illusion that their dealings with me were completely straightforward; that we were all friends, and no secrets, though the plain fact of it was that there were plenty of things they didn't let me in on and would not for some time. And though I tried to ignore this I was aware of it all the same.

Son nuestros secretos los que nos definen, y no la cara que mostramos al mundo.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves. — FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD