#secrets

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#gossip #secrets #gossip

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. ↗

— China Miéville

#secrets #stories #gossip

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. ↗

— Alice Munro

#secrets #shame #shame

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ... ↗

— John Geddes

#weeping #writing-from-the-heart #writing-process #writing-secrets #writing-process

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet. ↗

— Kirby Puckett

#been #closet #everybody #everything #except

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know? ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#because #cry #darkest #deepest #go

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else? ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#am #convince #dark #else #ever

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#burn #darkest #eyes #feel #i

The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. ↗

— William Blake

#secrets #william-blake #art