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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

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long. — Jim Butcher

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

Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children. — Rick Riordan

Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear. — Jeaniene Frost

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

I love the short-haired lifestyle. — Anne Hathaway

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

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

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

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

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

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

The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for
if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

Im too hung for womens underwear. — M. Shadows

Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws? — Hock G. Tjoa

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

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. — Bill Watterson

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

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

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

Patience is produced in the midst of storms; it blossoms under the intense pressures of the storms. — E'yen A. Gardner

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

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

Secret History of the Mongols: — Anonymous