“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
“It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.”
— Gregory David Roberts, book Shantaram
Source: Shantaram
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