Hidden Quotes

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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didnâ€™t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the… — Raymond Chandler
That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing more that you'll have with Spinnerbait… — Sarah Dessen
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. — George Bernard Shaw
The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it.… — Kenneth Rexroth
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they… — John O'Donohue
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so… — David Foster Wallace
There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or… — Jerzy Kosinski
As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book called "Symbolism in… — Laurie Halse Anderson
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely… — Daniel Handler
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless… — Sue Monk Kidd
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay And when it's… — Suzanne Collins
We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves. — Ben Okri
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,… — Michael Ondaatje
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden… — Thomas Moore
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? Where… — Herman Melville
This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger… — Cornelia Funke

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