Quotes About Secrecy

Life was a shell game. The winners could just hide the truth better than everybody else.

Okay, the State Department has been on the horn to their counterparts in Moscow. They are disavowing all knowledge of any of this.

Do you have good encryption

Across the room he had placed a mirror he'd found in her bathroom on a table. It was angled so that he could see her face reflected in it, while he remained hidden from her.

This guy had taken great care to not allow even a piece of his skin to be observed. They didn't even know if he was black or white. Although most mass murderers were white. And male.

had a way of looking one over without seeming to that any Secret Service agent would be proud

it's obvious to anyone that 5,000 golf buddies in an incestuous CEO caste can much more plausibly connive in secret with parasitic Wall Streeters, casino moguls, Mafiosi, "ex"-KGB agents and inheritance brats. The very folks who want populist rallies pouring hate at both people of color and smart folks.

Young lady, Silk said urbanely, I think you'd be amazed at how little Polgara's concerned about who you are. Polgara? Ce'Nedra faltered. The Polgara? I thought you said that she was your sister. I lied, Silk confessed. It's a vice a have.

American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. For the great disadvantage of secrecy is that it's interesting.

Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

The amount of organization and toiletry-lugging he has to do to get secretly high in front of a subterranean outtake vent in the pre-supper gap would make a lesser man quail.

abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy.

I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away.' 'But then how do you know they're monsters, then?' 'That's the monstrosity right there, Boo, I'm starting to think.' 'Golly Ned.' 'That they walk among us. Teach our children. Inscrutable. Brass-faced.

People turned out so identical in certain root domestic particulars it made Gately feel strange sometimes, like he was in possession of certain overlarge private facts to which no man should be entitled.

There's no real samizdat in the U.S. per se, First Amendment-wise, I don't think. I suppose ultra-radical Quebecois and Albertan stuff could be considered O.N.A.N.ite samizdat.

I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away....That they walk among us. Teach our children. Inscrutable. Brass-faced.

Hal likes to get high in secret, but a bigger secret is that he's as attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high. filmic mind Everybody was tired in a good way. someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. novocaine of the soul The original sense of addiction involved being bound over, dedicated The addict

The other nice thing about the Pump Room is the way it's connected by tunnel to the prorectors' rows of housing units, which means men's rooms, which means Hal can crawl, hunch, and tiptoe into

How lonely we are in the world; how selfish and secret, everybody!

the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers

He knew far too many like Fredericks who, while mouthing platitudes, actually held everyone in secret disdain, because they as "leaders" knew what was best "for the people.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.