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Quotes About Secrecy

There is no better way to conceal oneself than by listening to others.
~ David Rakoff
They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.
~ David Sedaris
Like prisoners and shepherds, many of them didn't care who they had sex with, the idea being that what happens in the dark stays in the dark. It's the next morning you have to worry about—the name-calling, the slamming of doors, the charge that you somehow cast a spell.
~ David Sedaris
The real life of the party is flattened beneath the bed, taping actual sex encounters, not sitting cross-legged on the floor with a guitar, embarrassing himself and others.
~ David Sedaris
And the scariest thing—a superintelligent AI would be smart enough to hide what it was until it was too late.
~ David Sosnowski
behind the seen lies the immeasurable unseen.
~ David W. Blight
It was also horribly embarrassing, and the fact that none of them knew she could sense their emotions only made it worse. It was as if she stood outside their windows, listening to whispered conversations they'd never meant to share with her, and the fact that she had no choice—that she could no longer not sense the feelings of those about her—only made her feel perversely guilty when she did.
~ David Weber
Elle aurait dû m'avertir. Je n'admets pas qu'elle m'ait trahi en secret.
~ Yasmina Reza
Spy (1973) Many years ago, I was sent to spy out the land beyond the age of thirty. And I stayed there and didn't go back to my senders, so as not to be made to tell about this land and made to lie.
~ Yehuda Amichai
I got something to tell you, said Keisha Blake, disguising her voice with her voice.
~ Zadie Smith
grass can be seen, although it is important not to
~ Zadie Smith
Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me. Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one.
~ Zadie Smith
Rumor, that wingless bird, had shadowed over the town.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She found that she had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them. She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen. She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
and tell me." "Reckon we better not tell yuh heah at de
~ Zora Neale Hurston
If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'
~ Biz Stone
Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.
~ John Twelve Hawks
For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.
~ Ben Whishaw
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
~ Joss Whedon
I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.
~ Linda Perry
All of us are private to ourselves. Nobody ever really knows anybody else. Everybody in the world keeps something to themselves.
~ Terry Wogan
I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
~ W. Mark Felt
And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them.
~ Lynn Redgrave
El secreto de las grandes fortunas sin causa aparente es un crimen olvidado, porque se ha cometido de una manera limpia. –Silencio,
~ Honore de Balzac