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— Tori Amos
The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
— Frank Herbert
Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
— Henry David Thoreau
That he was outnumbered did not matter because the whole world had outnumbered him long ago, and what do numbers matter?
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.
— Tom Brokaw
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
— Honore De Balzac
Time, and repeated screenings, have endowed the memory with a menace the original did not possess. -The Secret History, pg. 260
— Donna Tartt
The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.
— Jessie Burton
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
— Hannah Murray
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
— Will Durant
I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.
— Colleen Atwood
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.
— Donna Tartt
Just because it's the biggest secret in the history of the world doesn't make it any less true.
— Gina Damico
I was as depressed as I have ever been in my life.
— Donna Tartt
am prosperous. I am coming into overflow.
— Joel Osteen
We are caught in a secret history, in a forest of symbols.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars.
— Donna Tartt
One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.
— Christopher Caldwell
For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.
— Procopius
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
— George Eliot
I'm just a lie waiting to happen.
— Walter Mosley
I got so much advice; I just started tuning it out. If one more person told me what I had to do when the baby comes, I was going to shoot 'em.
— Kate Hudson
You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.
— Zack Snyder
Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
— Henry Ward Beecher
As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.
— Mike Pence
This, then, is how we first came across the fearsome secret history of turkey's mannequins.
— Orhan Pamuk
The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
— Mary Roach
Secret History of the Mongols:
— Anonymous
In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.
— Donna Tartt
But in the secret history of anger
one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others. — Ilya Kaminsky
one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others. — Ilya Kaminsky
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
— Alan Furst
He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.
— Dava Sobel