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The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert

Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. — Donna Tartt

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know. — Henry David Thoreau

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events. — Honore De Balzac

Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260 — Donna Tartt

In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman. — Georgette Mosbacher

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. — Donna Tartt

I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating. — Hannah Murray

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate. — Donna Tartt

Just because it's the biggest secret in the history of the world doesn't make it any less true. — Gina Damico

I was as depressed as I have ever been in my life. — Donna Tartt

The world has a lot to offer. There's a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that. — Chloe Neill

There is no story that is not true, [ ... ] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. — Chinua Achebe

Wear me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave. — William Shakespeare

Guess if you can, choose if you dare. — Pierre Corneille

We are caught in a secret history, in a forest of symbols. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars. — Donna Tartt

If you have a good light inside you, you will get a good light from outside! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You're driving me crazy, Blaire. Insane, baby. Fucking insane, — Abbi Glines

The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married. — Jessie Burton

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published. — Alan Furst

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past. — George Eliot

Each book has a secret history of ways and means. — Henry Ward Beecher

This, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins. — Orhan Pamuk

When Ali Bell gives you the finger, she's telling you how many seconds you have to live. — Gena Showalter

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. — Ibrahim Babangida

For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen. — Procopius

In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself. — Donna Tartt

But in the secret history of anger
one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others. — Ilya Kaminsky

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary. — Will Durant

You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony - who tells the last story. — Tad Williams

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. — Dava Sobel

I loved history, any kind of history, and even better if it was hidden, secret, or underground. — April White

Secret History of the Mongols: — Anonymous

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. — John Barth

Truth is not a path you follow, but one created by your footsteps. — Frederick Dodson

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew. — Christopher Caldwell