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Mystery Quotes
On suspense, secrecy, and the pull of not knowing.
These quotes move between a filmmaker's take on the ongoing-killer structure of a horror franchise and an unrelated aside on how intuitive a modern device can be. A more poetic line asks for a plain, quiet mystery rather than an elaborate one. Try Mystery riddles for a playful companion page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible and whether it's dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.
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I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.
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In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
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I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist.
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Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.
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The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why did the third bullet explode?'
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