Quotes About Concealment

You may have been paired with someone who doesn't know and tries to mask that lack of knowledge with indifference.

All cats are the same in the dark, says the proverb. But it certainly did not apply to people, with them it was just the opposite. During the day they were all alike, running in their well-defined ways. At night they changed beyond recognition.

As a child I used to lie on the floor with my eyes tightly closed and hope that people would walk past without noticing me. That would mean I was truly invisible.

la vieja gruñona y encorvada por el deterioro de los años, que generalmente se escondía detrás de las ramas secas

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

And so well did they hide themselves in their love that grass grew over their hearts and all their loud songs became indecipherable ribbons of air.

It was as though the edges of things were where the greater part might be hidden - where he could find more.

The more "normal" the person seems, the sicker she probably is.

O mnogim su stvarima razgovarali, a još su ih više prešutjeli.

It is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them.

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal - no one will see it. But when a button is missing - everyone sees that.

I realize he does not know that a man cannot talk of such things; I would do it willingly, but it is too dangerous for me to put these things into words. I am afraid they might then become gigantic and I be no longer able to master them. What would become of us if everything that happens out there were quite clear to us?

Parce qu'il est plus facile de se cacher derrière une vie de quarante ans que derrière une de vingt.

His letter to Rice began, "I have on hand a great project for the World's Fair in Chicago. I am going to build a vertically revolving wheel 250' in dia." Nowhere in this letter, however, did he reveal the true dimension of his vision:

My life had become so dichotomized and compartmentalized, so off the tracks that I barely understood it myself. I couldn't tell him that Spade was Jekyll and Hyde, two men trapped inside one six-foot-three roiling meat suit. Nothing about my life was suited for picnic talk.

was always trying to improve the appearance of the package, because he knew that the goods inside were rotten.

people," he said, "try to put on a poker face when they are in a panic and when they try to put on a poker face they look sulky.

To grow up at all is to conceal the mass of internal scar tissue that throbs in our dreams.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story. (Interview with Paris Review , 1958)

A valuable thing too is never to let anyone know how fine you thought anyone else ever was because they know better and no one was ever that splendid.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

But I know many things I can't say.