There were no secrets in Village. It was one of the rules that Leader had proposed, and all of the people had voted in favor of it. Everyone who had come to Village from elsewhere, all of those who had not been born here, had come from places with secrets. Sometimes—not very often, for inevitably it caused sadness—people described their places of origin: places with cruel governments, harsh punishments, desperate poverty, or false comforts.
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Related In all those instances, the people had come into the polling places and were unhappy about Propositi... KAREN OSBORNE I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to ha... JEANNETTE WALLS There were people coming in here from New York, California, Chicago, all different places that had p... ROY ACUFF I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village. GABY HOFFMANN There is a long history of people gathering in the same spot at the same time every week, or after w... RICK JAMES Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles... MICHAEL CONNELLY We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts. ZINEDINE ZIDANE Robbers’ Hill and its surrounding area were extremely safe for women. In the last two decade... RAVI RANJAN GOSWAMI I had the great good fortune to be born in a mad village. It was the kind of village that you could ... DARIO FO The Plaza is one of those places where everyone had an emotional moment. People's parents got engage... CATHY ELKIES It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and ... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but not one of them could be prideful of their la... COLSON WHITEHEAD Everybody in those days was a foreigner, no matter where they were born; as industrial modernization... JERRY HERRON We may never know if that child had whooping cough or not, but it was treated because of the whoopin... LINDA JONES Whether or not, he felt very much at home in this state. It was to places like this that they had se... DOUGLAS WOOLF All of the village was of a piece, a time, and a style; it was as though the people needed the uglin... SHIRLEY JACKSON Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an oppo... PATRICIA WRIGHT Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from th... SALLY QUINN I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never... HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved t... J. G. BALLARD We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way ... JACK WHITE We're not seeing evidence of a lack of places. For the last couple of years we've had spare places a... ELIZABETH LOFTUS Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as ... CHARLES DICKENS The holy book he’d spent so much of his life preaching from had one cruel flaw: it was not very go... MICHEL FABER Its a hard loss for us all, ... He had been a very visible figure in the village since he started ... DEBBIE SMITH I think one of Barry's strengths was his ability to make sure we had input from everyone. It was one... SUZANNE ANARDE In the entire village, there is only One King; all places are sacred. SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his mi... H.W. BRANDS In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next m... PETER DRUCKER In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next m... ALFRED A. KNOPF There were plotters, there was no doubt about it. Some had been ordinary people who'd had enough. So... TERRY PRATCHETT This is unprecedented in our country, ... There is no disaster that has had the amount of trauma for... HOWARD OSOFSKY In those days, who bought? Who had money? Aside from being ostracized for doing something no one els... JAMES KOSHIBA It was so intense! At the dance hall, people hanging out of the rafters! Everybody from Austin had c... BOB LIVINGSTON My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village Pe... MARJORIE GUBELMANN They each had secrets they were keeping from the other; secrets they were keeping out of love. MELISSA DE LA CRUZ There will be things I won't tell you ever , Then there will be things that you won't ever lis... RATISH EDWARDS A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the t... MOHSIN HAMID And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world whe... JOHN ELDER ROBISON These odd year elections just don't draw that much attention from people, and we only had four place... BILL VARNEY I knew we had something when I let people read the script. We had people who were sports fans and no... BASIL IWANYK They've had many people who have come in, who have had ballots, and they've had really good response... ANGIE WHITE It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was becau... PETER JENKINS There was no real decline in popularity for the Flying Turns. In fact, they were some of the most po... JOE MUSCATO The contract we agreed upon was not that different from the one that we've proposed all along. It's ... CASSANDRA PHELPS I started to empty the dishwasher and then remembered that there was an alternative to my thoughts a... SARAH MOSS The theory behind the program was it would catch people who dropped their insurance after renewing t... STEVE DALE They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ... H.P. LOVECRAFT It was not hard to attract students because everyone knew about computers. But it was very hard to a... SAM CONTE I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin... PHILIPPA GREGORY We had just about everything people who had lost their home and personal possessions would need. And... BUTCH KLEIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people... MARK TWAIN All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people... MARK TWAIN All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of peopl... MARK TWAIN All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of peopl... MARK TWAIN All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people ... MARK TWAIN How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with. STEPHENIE MEYER No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ... J.D. ROBB There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from t... SUSAN B. ANTHONY We've proposed to study not just the parking situation, but how to better organize the village so it... MICHAEL SCHWARTING There were some really good results. Each of the girls had some little problems in places, but they ... ALDO RADAMUS Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA He shall say: By Allah! you had almost caused me to perish; / And had it not been for the favor of m... QURAN We had to have it for ourselves. We were down two places in the standings coming in. It was a charac... BERNIE DRISCOLL Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There were marks of wheels of some small car that may have reversed from there. It seems that he had... ANITA ROY Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local t... KATHERINE DUNHAM And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar... ROALD DAHL In L.A., everyone is in their car all the time, so you're used to not interacting with people fo... SHENAE GRIMES We've had over 300,000 people since it opened. We're very pleased with it. People have already come ... JEFF SWANAGAN The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is st... MEGAN AMRAM It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect... JAMES A. BALDWIN It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect... JAMES BALDWIN Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, shou... THOMAS PAINE In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to mor... ANNA C. SALTER A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind,... JOAN DIDION There was an unease that was beginning to spread out among all the people who had come into contact ... HUGH SIMS Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern... TERRY PRATCHETT That girl that had needed to be protected, who had craved stability and comfort . . . she had died U... SARAH J. MAAS The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles
removed from their path by ... WILLIAM MATHER LEWIS I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it at... DANIEL HUMM For a long time imagination was all i had. I allowed it to take me to all the places i yearned to be... NIKKI ROWE And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have bee... BLACK ELK She was coming to look on men and women as fellow survivors; well-dissemblers of their woes, who, wi... SHIRLEY HAZZARD Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to cr... MICHAEL KORDA As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare... DEBORAH BRAY HADDOCK I guess it's because a lot of people came here in the '20s and '30s, and people had some money and t... ED KELLEY But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible �... M.M. KAYE And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar... BENJAMIN P. HARDY It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY But once, in his anger, Aidan had asked me whether I thought I had wasted my life, and I had told hi... JOHN BOYNE Far from addressing the Soviet nationalities question, the Afghan adventure had, as was by now all t... TONY JUDT We came out very, very flat in doubles. It was probably our worst doubles match of the year. Basical... EFE USTUNDAG He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out. CAROLINE GREEN He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhap... DAPHNE DU MAURIER I checked with our infectious disease specialist and we've not had any cases here yet. So far so goo... JOHN ATKINSON Those places are visited by people from all over the world. They are beautiful. They are gorgeous. A... DIANE JONES They were everywhere. On both sides of the burn, in places almost inaccessible on foot and above and... REBECCA EAST I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he k... MAX MULLER We had complaints all up and down Wabash from people who were tired of students urinating and throwi... LLOYD BENJAMIN
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