"...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances."

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Lionel Shriver

#Secret Quotes #Guilty Quotes #Appearance Quotes

“I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.”
“Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.”
“The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.”
“Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.”
“We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.”
“They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else.”
“Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.”

Source : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company
“I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.”

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