#revealing

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#covered #habit #keeps #prevents #realism

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible. ↗

— David Copperfield

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Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do. ↗

— David Duchovny

#angle #been #come #fear #fit

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ↗

— James Thurber

#doing #everywhere #fun #himself #humorist

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not. ↗

— John Turturro

#movement #reveal #revealing #someone #sometimes

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Nothing is more revealing than movement. ↗

— Martha Graham

#movement #nothing #revealing #than

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#father #female #gradually #having #i

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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