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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

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

That he was outnumbered did not matter because the whole world had outnumbered him long ago, and what do numbers matter? — Ta-Nehisi Coates

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news. — Tom Brokaw

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

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

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

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

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 had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards. — Colleen Atwood

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

Love and dignity do not dwell together. — Ovid

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

am prosperous. I am coming into overflow. — Joel Osteen

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

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

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

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

I'm just a lie waiting to happen. — Walter Mosley

I got so much advice; I just started tuning it out. If one more person told me what I had to do when the baby comes, I was going to shoot 'em. — Kate Hudson

You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values. — Zack Snyder

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

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. — Mike Pence

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

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me. — Mary Roach

Secret History of the Mongols: — Anonymous

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

Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk. — Marge Piercy

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

As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours. — John Milton