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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. ↗

— James Agee

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The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

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Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. ↗

— David Leavitt

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Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels. ↗

— John Sladek

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