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Quotes About Secrecy

Peki, niçin bize en gizli s?rr?n? açm??t?? Nedenini sordum. -Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlars?n?z.
~ Harper Lee
How do you conceal a secret? With openness.
~ Harry Bingham
That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.
~ Haruki Murakami
My life is like a trunk stuffed with dirty laundry. It contains more than enough material to drive any one human being to mental aberration - maybe two or three people's worth? My sex life alone would do. It's nothing I could talk about to anyone. No, I can't go to a doctor. I have to solve this on my own.
~ Haruki Murakami
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.
~ Haruki Murakami
Once you've hidden something, you have to keep it hidden.
~ Haruki Murakami
You have let something out of the bag before you yourself knew what it was all about. That can be awfully dangerous
~ Haruki Murakami
A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.
~ Haruki Murakami
Un caballero es aquel que no habla demasiado de los impuestos que paga ni de la mujer con quien se acuesta
~ Haruki Murakami
A gentleman doesn't talk much about the taxes he paid, or the women he sleeps with.
~ Haruki Murakami
had unconsciously crossed part of the yard, and was now standing under the lower branches of the mulberry tree, still at an age where anything I couldn't see couldn't see me.
~ Haven Kimmel
Hadst thou sought the whole earth over, said he, looking darkly at the clergyman, there was no place so secret- no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,- save on this very scaffold!
~ Hawthorne
But although she interacted with so many people during the day, no one could actually say that they were close to her. There is an aloofness to the permanently heartbroken, a secrecy. There was something impenetrable about her. There was a door that she had closed, which no one could get in.
~ Heather O'Neill
Jules always told me not to tell people your business, not to tell them your past. He said to keep them guessing. He said that once a person knew all there was to know about you, they'd take advantage of you. Trust nobody, he'd told me over and over. In a way, I'd kept his advice up until just then. I was stoned and felt like sharing all my shit with the whole world. I wanted to be taken advantage of.
~ Heather O'Neill
Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.
~ Lisa See
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
If you do get to know me, I'll tell everything to you. But I don't want to tell everything to the wrong people.
~ Kane Brown
So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
~ Frances Bean Cobain
When you are in positions of privileged access... you see things that may be disturbing. Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up.
~ Edward Snowden
Americans can tolerate some secrecy, particularly when it is rooted in protection of the public's interests. But when the claims appear to hide wrongdoing, they begin to curdle.
~ Neal Katyal
I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.
~ David Friedman
I don't think anyone in the WWE really knew that I did parkour. I mean, some of the guys have seen me doing it backstage in arenas before and have always asked about it, but the office didn't know.
~ John Morrison
You know that secret novel you've been working on? The one that's really about you and your friends and your psycho ex-girlfriend? The one that, if discovered, would socially annihilate you for eternity? Yeah, go ahead and burn it.
~ Camille Perri
The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody.
~ Alessandra Ambrosio