“[…]Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?”
Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress
“Maybe it’s a mark of a maturing culture, do you think, that secrets aren’t kept, that truth is told, that things are talked out?”
Source: 2000s and posthumous publications, A Time Odyssey, Firstborn (2007), Chapter 49, “Areosynchronous” (p. 313)
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Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
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Variant: The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
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Hélène Binet (1959) Swiss photographer
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Nicholas Sparks book True Believer
Lexie Darnell, Chapter 13, p. 205
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)
Context: In her new, more mature incarnation, she embraced the idea that maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark in the world.