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> [All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/all-words-are-masks-and-the-lovelier-they-are-the-more-they-are-meant-2/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

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## Other authors on Conceal

## More by Steven Millhauser

> [But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/but-what-struck-me-was-the-book-madness-of-the-place-books-lay/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/i-m-pleased-by-anything-in-myself-that-strikes-me-as-not-myself/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [“For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ...We have all been geniuses, you and I; but sooner or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/for-what-is-genius-i-ask-you-but-the-capacity-to-be-obsessed-we-have/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [“A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and each ending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/a-story-with-a-single-ending-seems-to-us-a-bare-and-diminished-thing/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/his-ambition-was-to-insert-his-dreams-into-the-world-and-if-they-were/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [“... now and again we would happen to step out of the familiar universe into a sudden sharp shock of sweetly scented air, sudden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/now-and-again-we-would-happen-to-step-out-of-the-familiar-universe/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [“Martin thought of the iron El trestles winding and stretching across the city, of department store windows and hotel lobbies, of electric elevators and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/martin-thought-of-the-iron-el-trestles-winding-and-stretching-across/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [“Then solar systems, galaxies, supernovas, infinite space itself will become elements of a final masterwork--a never-ending festival, a celestial amusement park in which every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/then-solar-systems-galaxies-supernovas-infinite-space-itself-will/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/in-the-long-dusks-of-summer-we-walked-the-suburban-streets-through/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [“... it is the purpose of this history to trace not the mere outlines of a life but the inner plan, not the external…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/it-is-the-purpose-of-this-history-to-trace-not-the-mere-outlines-of-a/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [“Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/others-saw-in-the-trend-still-another-instance-of-a-disturbing/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/stories-like-conjuring-tricks-are-invented-because-history-is/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [“I thought of myself, in those days, as someone in disguise—beneath the obedient son, beneath the straight-A student, the agreeable well-brought-up boy with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/i-thought-of-myself-in-those-days-as-someone-in-disguise-beneath-the/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/we-know-nothing-absolutely-nothing/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

> [I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-millhauser/i-saw-that-i-was-in-danger-of-becoming-ordinary-and-i-understood-that/)

[Steven Millhauser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-millhauser/)

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