“The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling”
Foamfollower in Lord Foul's Bane, quoting the Elohim
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“If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.”
Telling the Truth (1977)
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
Source: Estrin, James, Diane Arbus, 1923-1971, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-diane-arbus.html, 6 November 2018, The New York Times, 8 March 2018]
Diane Arbus: Revelations. New York: Random House, 2003. ISBN 0-375-50620-9.
Ault, Alicia, A Window into the World of Diane Arbus: Photographs from the portfolio, "A box of 10," reveal photographer's secrets, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/window-world-diane-arbus-180968861/, 13 November 2018, Smithsonian, 24 April 2018
“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You, written by Bryan Adams, Mutt Lange, and Michael Kamen
Song lyrics, Waking Up the Neighbours (1991)
“Laila: Tell your secrets to the wind but don't blame it for telling the trees.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)