quotes about Kept Secrets

“Uriah drops his tray next to me. It is loaded with beef stew and chocolate cake. I stare at the cake pile. “There was cake?” I say, looking at my own plate, which is more sensibly stocked than Uriah’s. “Yeah, someone just brought it out. Found a couple boxes of the mix in the back and baked it,” he says. “You can have a few bites of mine.” “A few bites? So you’re planning on eating that mountain of cake by yourself?” “Yes.” He looks confused. “Why?” “Never mind.”

“A fool and her money are soon courted.”

“When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.”

Source : Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

“We all need to accept everyone.”

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“Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.”

“Don't underestimate the power of the nonplussed look and the shake of the head. Letting noxious words hang in the air can be very powerful.”

“The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.”

“I am extremely grateful for two big gifts from my father. First, my sense of humor - the ability to see the humor in something while it is happening. That has cushioned my life. I am also grateful for the work of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. It has enriched my life and made me a very different person.”

“Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.”

“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction”