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Quotes About Secrecy

Sen bu olay? s?kça anlat?yorsundur, dedim. ... Hay?r, dedi, bunu anlatm?yorum...Her ÅŸey herkese anlat?lmaz...
~ Marguerite Duras
We said nothing about all this outside, one of the first things we'd learned was to keep quiet about the ruling principle of our life, poverty. And then about everything else. Our first confidants, though the word seems excessive, are our lovers, the people we meet away from our various homes, first in the streets of Saigon and then on ocean liners and trains, and then all over the place.
~ Marguerite Duras
Practicaba en secreto una vida austera de la que nadie tenía idea. Pero el largo aprendizaje del deber estoico no lo había endurecido en una actitud de falsa sabiduría; era demasiado fino como para no haberse apercibido de que los extremos de la virtud se asemejan a los del amor en que su mérito proviene precisamente de su rareza, de su condición de obra maestra única, de hermoso exceso.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Cuando más importante es una cosa, más parece que queramos callarla.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
For all I know, the guy is Dracula.
~ Mari Mancusi
I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn't want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.
~ Marilyn Manson
Lila would never tell anyone about that time. She knew it would sound very sad, and it wasn't, really.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
~ Mario Puzo
He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean.
~ Mario Puzo
Santino, come here. What's the matter with you? I think your brain is going soft with all that comedy you are playing with that young girl. Never tell anyone outside the Family what you're thinking again. Go on.
~ Mario Puzo
Santino, never let anyone outside the Family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails.
~ Mario Puzo
truth was a source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?
~ Mario Puzo
The Don nodded his head thoughtfully. Then he turned to his son and said gently, "Santino, never let anyone outside the Family know what you are thinking.
~ Mario Puzo
Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
~ Mario Puzo
Una cosa no has aprendido de él, Mike: a hablar de la forma en que lo estás haciendo. Hay cosas que deben hacerse y se hacen, pero nunca se habla de ellas. Uno no trata de justificarlas; no pueden ser justificadas. Se hacen, simplemente. Y luego se olvidan.
~ Mario Puzo
En las casi 4 semanas que pasó allá, negociando el alquiler del Henry Reed, obtuvo muchas informaciones, pero, siempre, con la sensación de que nadie llegaba al fondo de las cosas, que incluso las gentes mejor intencionadas le ocultaban algo y se lo ocultaban a sí mismos, temerosos de enfrentar una verdad terrible y acusadora
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Zou ze me, als haar man op reis was, een keer willen toestaan naar Newmarket te komen en een blik in haar huis te werpen? Nee, nooit.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
But sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don't really know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad. But really we are.
~ Mark Haddon
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we really don't know we are sad. So we say we aren't sad.But we really are.
~ Mark Haddon
Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. Mum's the word. I suppose it's because his wife's dead, said Christiana, that he dances with a broom. I don't think so, said Boonya. He dances with a mop, too. Maybe he had a mistress. He did, but she had short hairs. I also got short-haired mops.
~ Mark Helprin
Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.
~ Mark Kurlansky
The famous British child psychologist D. W. Winnicott called these aspects of personality our True Self and False Self. It is the True Self that lets us know what is authentic and what has become artificial, while the False Self is a diplomat of distrust, enforcing a lifestyle of guardedness, secrecy, and complaint.
~ Mark Nepo
Frances is a sealed letter. It doesn't matter where she's been or who's pawed her, no one gets to handle the contents no matter how grimy the envelope. And it's for sure no one's going to be able to steam her open.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
The MacKinnons were always new, always almost just like everyone else. Always next door to normal. It was like growing up in the witness protection program without changing your name.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald