#reveal

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#also #artist #dare #others #reveal

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things. ↗

— Nick Cave

#change #couple #eventually #few #find

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#inevitable #law #least #must #mystery

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. ↗

— Chanakya

#carry #council #determined #doing #execution

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#always #being #bravery #courage #cunning

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#desecration #flag #free #free speech #fundamental

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#once #prisoner #reveal #secret #slave

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#actions #censored #change #character #dangerous

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#defining #error #meaning #reveals #storytelling