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Secret Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes…
- American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do…
- Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
- There are secrets within secrets, though--always.
- It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else…
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- The secret to humor is surprise. — Aristotle
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Marcus Aurelius
- Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
- Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. — Diane Ackerman
- If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought… — Teresa of Avila