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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
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
In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.
— Georgette Mosbacher
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
The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.
— Jessie Burton
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
But in the secret history of angerone man's silence / lives in the bodies of others. — Ilya Kaminsky
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
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