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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
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
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
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 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
