#myster

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

#any #approach #become #crystal #deep

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#concept #eu #mystery #support #why

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#feminine #like #mysteries #seen #still

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience). ↗

— James Schuyler

#genesis #i #make #me #mean

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#mysterious #our #overseas #problems #sinister

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#must #mystery #religion #without

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#around #aware #coincidences #dreams #emotions

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#grasped #mount #mystery #rejected #sermon

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#idea #magic #magician #marcel #mystery