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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

There was something compelling about a man who refused to wear pants in winter. — Kai Strand

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

Do that which serves your cause, not that which serves your rage. — Leonard Pitts

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

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

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

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

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

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around. — Louise Bogan

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

I wanted to be the fifth Beatle. — Ozzy Osbourne

But you can never do anything like that again. You can't teach me love and then die on me. That is unacceptable! — Sam Argent

I stood, my limbs shaking with adrenaline. "Oh, don't do this now. Don't bring this up now. — Megan Miranda

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

I lead a very conventional life. — Joan Didion

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

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

Purple Rain comes on. It's the song we first danced to at homecoming. — Heidi McLaughlin

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother? — Maaza Mengiste

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

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough? — Garry Winogrand

I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. — Jessica Savitch

Secret History of the Mongols: — Anonymous

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