#secret

A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time. ↗

— Oliver Franks

#only #oxford #person #secret #sense

It was if the charming theatrical curtain had dropped away and I saw him for the first time as he really was: not the benign old sage, the indulgent and protective good-parent of my dreams, but ambiguous, a moral neutral, whose beguiling trappings concealed a being watchful, capricious, and heartless. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#dreams

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style. ↗

— James Gunn

#appropriate #beyond #discover #else #find

I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#fine #how #i #i think #ingredients

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. ↗

— Joseph R. McCarthy

#communist #communist party #department #five #hand

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#course #immediately #offer #secretly #them

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#curiosity #force #human #know #natural

Being a Victoria's Secret model, which was always my dream. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#being #dream #model #secret #victoria

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#little #make #more #ourselves #out

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't. ↗

— Jane Rule

#love #love is #married #people #secret