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  1. Jean-Paul Sartre _ The Flies

    Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
    book-quoteremorsefeelingsjudgement

  2. Anne Carson _ Autobiography of Red

    .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out.
    book-quoteprivacyintroversion

  3. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of publicitymake up for what we'd lose? Our privacy-our need to stay together?Could we lose each other just to get even?
    book-quotetogetherstoriesstory

  4. Joan Didion _ Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    There is a common superstition that "self-respect" is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations, and trouble in general. It does not at all. It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation.
    book-quotepeacereconciliationself-respect

  5. Gabriel García Márquez _ Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

    All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
    book-quoteprivacysecrecypublic-image

  6. Mark Helprin _ Winter's Tale

    Mr. de Pinto, the dog who protects sheep quickly learns how to direct them, and it becomes a habit. The people have been trained by their 'watchmen' to jump, and to trample what the 'watchmen' want trampled."I have found, that those who would guard the people are their governors. The government admits that it is a government. The press pretends that it is not. But what a pretense! You orchestrate entire populations. And who elected you? No one. You are self-appointed, you speak for no one, and therefore you have no right to question me as if you represent the common good.
    book-quoteprivacypress

  7. Sue Monk Kidd _ The Dance of the Dissident

    But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too fragile, too vulnerable to bring into the public eye. Tender things with tiny roots tend to wither in the glare of public scrutiny. By holding my awakening within, I contained the energy of it, and it fed me the way blood feeds muscle. It fed me a certain propelling energy, and I kept moving forward.
    book-quoteprivacy

  8. Peter S. Beagle _ The Folk of the Air

    Julie started the engine, and the air around the BSA danced to life, this time enclosing them in a roaring privacy - a momentary country, trembling at the curb. Outside, beyond their borders, the honey-slow twilight was thinning and quickening to a cold, dusty lavender. Skateboarders hurtled past like moths, urgently contorted, one-dimensional in the pale headlights rushing up the hill toward them.
    book-quotemotorcycleprivacytwilight

  9. David K. Shipler _ The Rights of the People: How

    There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security.
    book-quoterightssecuritypolitical

  10. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.''Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race.
    book-quoteidealismhumanityindividuality

  11. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    I wouldn't live in a colony like that, myself, for a thousand dollars an hour. I wouldn't want it next door. I'm not too happy it's within ten miles. Why? Because their soft-headedness irritates me. Because their beautiful thinking ignores both history and human nature. Because they'd spoil my thing with their thing. Because I don't think any of them is wise enough to play God and create a human society. Look. I like privacy, I don't like crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like anarchy, I don't even like discussion all that much. I prefer study, which is very different from meditation-not better, different. I don't like children who are part of the wild life. So are polecats and rats and other sorts of hostile and untrained vermin. I want to make a distinction between civilization and the wild life. I want a society that will protect the wild life without confusing itself with it.
    book-quotehistorycivilizationsociety

  12. Jodi Picoult _ Keeping Faith

    There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.
    book-quotewisdomsecretprivacy
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