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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.


Ian Mcewan

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
SISSELA BOK There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the...
NEIL GAIMAN There are those lunatic people who always prophesy the end of the world. I belong to them.
ANGELA KISS The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject,"...
MILAN KUNDERA It's a great victory for the people. It's time to end secrecy in government.
GEORGE BARRETT I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN The End is Nigh!" the man shouted.
"Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked.
T...
JANA OLIVER It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter...
KELLY NELSON Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ...
MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ...
MARIO PUZO I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm d...
UMBERTO ECO It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a dete...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Secrecy is the badge of fraud.
SIR JOHN CHADWICK Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
JEREMY TAYLOR Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
ROBERT HEINLEIN Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
BING GORDON In novel after novel you have succeeded in making East and West meet, mixing Swift with the Arabian ...
JACK LANG Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of
BILL MOYERS Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
BILL MOYERS Don’t put off till tomorrow anyone you could be doing today.
EMMA CHASE The end of this world looks closer
in eyes of them who want to repent.
TOBA BETA It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.
LEONARD COHEN The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster!
ISAAC ASIMOV She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-fo...
DEAN KOONTZ Our civilization is doomed to a short life: its component parts are too heterogeneous. I personally ...
PAUL BOWLES Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
HERGé English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controll...
ZADIE SMITH The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sug...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH At the end of the day, it's all about money.
GARRY KASPAROV The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN the manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its lack of accountabil...
ROY COOPER Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state
CARDINAL RICHELIEU The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU He believed the secrecy stamp was something that was improperly used. And I suspect he would think t...
KEVIN ANDERSON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO I know you,” said Maddy. “You’re -“
“What’s a name?” Loki grinned. “Wear it lik...
JOANNE HARRIS Some take hardships as the end of the world, i see it as another opportunity to overcome.
AMIR RIVEROLL What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!
RICK YANCEY She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the tas...
EDITH WHARTON But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.
CHINA MIéVILLE At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.
JANE SEYMOUR But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
KARL PILKINGTON At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
EARL SWEATSHIRT Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
CHARLES BARKLEY At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.
KEVIN MITNICK At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created.
BENJAMIN COHEN Secrecy begets tyranny.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
GEORGE P. SHULTZ The higher the classification [of secrecy], the quicker you will report it.
GEORGE P. SHULTZ هناك مرة أولى وأخيرة لكل شيء !
بتول الخضيري Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The most unfortunate thing about the system is the secrecy of the board.
KIRBY DICK No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child...
RICK YANCEY If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table amon...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. - Sir Th...
SIR THOMAS BROWNE I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mi...
PHILIP MASSINGER Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secre...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. - Gen. Thomas Harrison,
GEN. THOMAS HARRISON For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be kn...
BIBLE For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that non...
BIBLE Thee is a skeleton on every house.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
ED HOWE Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodl...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistine...
BIBLE The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us...
BIBLE The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; pati...
HAZRAT ALI (A.S) A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight, Let it be tenable in your silence s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE hooh this is such butleg i cant believe it
DUK ONCH That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
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IAN MILLAR I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I...
IAN MILLAR When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and ye...
IAN MILLAR The minute I put my leg on a horse and say, 'Come on, let's go,' I absolutely believe th...
IAN MILLAR Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and...
IAN MILLAR If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m...
IAN MCSHANE Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for...
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