From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

John Updike
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. - Nicholas Sparks

  2. True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  3. I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. - Anne Rice

  4. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. - Oscar Wilde

  5. Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish. - Maggie Stiefvater

More Quotes By John Updike
  1. It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

  2. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

  3. If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

  4. The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.

  5. Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

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