Quotes About Secrecy

I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.

A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

You mean you indulged in adultery and you dont' even have the benefit of a good saucy memory about it.

Ask me no questions and I'll spell you no lies, she said.

It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon as you break the shell to see, the dragon is no longer in its shell. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.

ils se parlaient à voix basse, et la conversation qu'ils avaient leur semblait plus douce, parce qu'elle n'était pas entendue.

I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.

I think I have already told you that there are certain things which it is not necessary to discuss, and this is one of them.

Comme la vie serait pleine de choses charmantes si nous pouvions compter sur la discrétion absolue les uns des autres.

A sociedade modernizada até o estágio do espetacular integrado se caracteriza pela combinação de cinco aspectos principais: a incessante renovação tecnológica, a fusão econômico-estatal, o segredo generalizado, a mentira sem contestação e o presente perpétuo.

Q: Should I share my secret ideas with anybody other than my dog? A: The only thing worse than a paranoid entrepreneur is a paranoid entrepreneur who talks to his dog.

My hypothesis is that the more an entrepreneur insists on a nondisclosure agreement, the less viable the idea.

it was better for Apple and for me that I slipped out in the dark of night.

One look at Scott was enough to tell you that the twig between his legs hadn't had its bark peeled back in a coon's age. Mr. Secretary ought to read Surgeon Kittson's annual

I will not say: that is because I am a city that does not want to surrender. Beseige me. It is because I am a deep, cool pyramid. Go through me. Pass through all my rooms and know my subterfuge. But you are passing right by the little room that I want to keep closed, and you don't see it. There is a secret. I myself do not know it, I just know it exists.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

Il gatto è misterioso e affine alle cose invisibili che l'uomo non potrà mai conoscere;

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.

I knew not which to believe, yet longed more and more to cross forever into the unknown land; for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.