#secrets

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#honesty #intent #internal-self #love #secrets

It didn't matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones that you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't decieve with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how the end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, and who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#great-story #secrets #stories #story #storytelling

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#because #company #drawn #each #fellow

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#financial #financial markets #fundamental #integrity #markets

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

#dark #formulae #full #hidden #hints

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#keep #others #secrets #things #us

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#secrets #sharing-secrets #words

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#glittering-eyes #hidden #magic #secrets #unlikely-places

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets. ↗

— Josef Albers

#apprentice #beginner #craft #european #first

Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#cake #comes #dancer #decorating #discipline