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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

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative. — Barbara Corcoran

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

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up. — Sam Levenson

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

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I will love you more today than I loved you yesterday, and I will love you even more, tomorrow. — William Chapman

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world. — Henrik Ibsen

We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher. — Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

Secret History of the Mongols: — Anonymous

I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country. — Antonio Munoz Molina

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

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

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. — Robert Breault

I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the dumplings. I think I just like to roll out dough. — Kay Robertson

She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance. — Scott Westerfeld

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

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

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

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

The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. — Edmund Waller

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

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

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

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

grief never leaves, it just mutates — Skip Horack

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

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

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

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

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

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

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