hiding Quotes

“I ain't such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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“Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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“Actually that's my secret—I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

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“He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse...”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

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“most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“What makes the desert beautiful . . . is that somewhere it hides a well...”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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