#reveals

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#book #hopefully #i #itself #never

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ↗

— Horace

#conceals #genius #prosperity #reveals

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#another #another man #charge #deal #good

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#clearly #his #joke #nothing #person

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself. ↗

— Bob Marley

#reveals #smoke #you #yourself

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. ↗

— Carl Olson

#between #careful #christianity #exist #far

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #fragment #human #human existence #literary

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it. ↗

— Helena Rubinstein

#color #daylight #drains #light #reveals