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“When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.”

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“Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me." Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one.”

Secrets Discretion Keeping Secrets

Book:White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

“And even honorable men keep secrets for the safety of those they love.”

Love Honor Secrets Honorable Keeping Secrets Honorable Men Saftey

Book:The Maiden Ship

Source: The Maiden Ship

“When she was starting out as an actress, a well-known director had leaned over his script, straightened his Coke-bottle glasses, and told Laurel she hadn't the looks to play leading roles. The advice had stung, and she'd wailed and railed, and then spent hours catching herself accidentally on purpose in the mirror before hacking her long hair short in the grip of drunken bravura. But it had proven a "moment" in her career. She was a character actress. The director cast her as the leading lady's sister, and she garnered her first rave reviews. People marveled at her ability to build characters from the inside out, to submerge herself and disappear beneath the skin of another person, but there was no trick to it; she merely bothered to learn the character's secrets. Laurel knew quite a bit about keeping secrets. She also knew that was where the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots.”

Keeping Secrets Book Title Actress

Book:The Secret Keeper

Source: The Secret Keeper

“about putting on the light in a dark room. He told me that when we keep secrets they grow inside us, and we can’t see the truth of them anymore.”

Truth Secrets Keeping Secrets

Book:To Die But Once

Source: To Die But Once

“Zache watched in expectant silence as he struggled for the words to explain himself. Finally, in an uncertain tone, he ventured, “I guess…when you’ve kept a secret for a long time, somehow keeping it becomes more important than the secret itself.”

Secrets Keeping Secrets

Book:Spooky Action at a Distance

Source: Spooky Action at a Distance

“In a regime where words are watched, lies are rewarded, and silence is survival, there is no truth. - Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad”

Truth Great Terror

Author:M T Anderson

“When agents of the Turkmen secret police came up short in arrests of counterrevolutionaries in 1937-38, they filled their quota by going to the Ashgabat marketplace and rounding up all men who wore beards, on theory that they were likely to be mullahs.”

Ussr Stalin Arrests Turkmenistan Great Terror

Author:Douglas Northrop

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

Motivational

Author:Helen Keller

“When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the one who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator. Vsevolod Meyerhold came as close as anyone to achieving this. It is important to know of the full horror of his sacrifice. It is easy for all to imagine we are heroes when we are sitting in our kitchens, dreaming of distant suffering. - Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad”

Hero Great Terror

Author:M T Anderson

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