"Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding."
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"Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination."
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"Try is the opposite of hiding."
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"It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported."
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"It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)"
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"Hiding spending does not reduce spending."
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"Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes"
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"I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them."
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"Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot."
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"He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding."
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"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place."
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