"If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself."

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Source : Jill Paton Walsh (2011). “The Attenbury Emeralds: The New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery”, p.98, Macmillan

Jill Paton Walsh

#Secret Quotes #Asking Quotes #Discretion Quotes

“If it wasn't for the publicity, I would've been out of here and gone a long time ago.”
“Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.”
“In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.”

Source : "Anne Rice: ‘I Quit Being A Christian’" by Jessie Kunhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2010.
“It is easy to write when you don't know how.”
“These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.”
“No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.”
“Materialism is an identity crisis.”
“I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'”

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