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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull. -- Salman Rushdie
Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them. -- Mason Cooley
A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. -- Patti Roberts
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen. -- Joanna Scott
Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid. -- Sylvia Plath
White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking. -- Edith Sitwell
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. -- Hugh Laurie
It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life. -- Judd Nelson
Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other. -- Guy Debord
I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. -- James H. Boren
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. -- James A. Baldwin
In Mexico, wrestling is part of the cultural fabric. The guys wear masks and they are real-life superheroes. -- Chris Jericho
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. -- Cesare Pavese
People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks. -- Jane Fonda
I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling. -- Andy Samberg
As actors, we get to hide. You can change your hair and your accent, and it's not you. You have tricks, these masks. -- Moran Atias
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. -- W. H. Auden
In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. -- Elinor Wylie
Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek. -- Sun Myung Moon
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. -- Stephen Hopkins
Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks. -- Gerard Butler
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. -- Alfred Jarry
Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life. -- Susan Orlean
I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman. -- Gerard Way
We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss. -- Malin Akerman
Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us. -- James Nesbitt
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. -- Elfriede Jelinek
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The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing. -- Ben Shapiro
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is. -- Annie Besant
I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.' -- Gilbert Gottfried
And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny. -- Jeff Daniels
Horror is the removal of masks. -- Robert Bloch
All societies end up wearing masks. -- Jean Baudrillard
...all cynicism masks a failure to cope. -- John Fowles
A public outcry usually masks a private obsession. -- Eric Schlosser
On a personal level, you wear different masks. -- Tika Sumpter
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! -- Duke of Wellington
During a carnival, men put masks over their masks. -- Xavier Forneret
Curiosity is one of the many masks of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks. -- Gore Vidal
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society. -- Robert Greene
Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose. --
The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented. -- John Fowles
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue. -- Washington Irving
The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings. -- Martin Bashir
Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face. -- Rajneesh
whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman. -- Suzanne Collins
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I like the masks; because the real face of the mask is again itself! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life -- Judd Nelson
In order to find peace, we must expose the masks we use to hide behind. -- Debbie Ford
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises -- Dennis Potter
Let's take off the masks and get real so we can get it right with God. -- Undena Y. Leake Jackson
Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are. -- Christopher Barzak
We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power. -- Frank Herbert
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal. -- Steven Millhauser
Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. -- Jean Baudrillard
Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. -- James Baldwin
My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump. -- Dana Goodyear
The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. -- George Plimpton
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose. -- Wes Craven
My hair is pretty wavy. And it's coarse and color-treated so I'm big on conditioner and conditioning masks. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil. -- Jon Snow
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. -- Jose Rizal
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. -- Mason Cooley
After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended. -- Dana Milbank
Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence. -- Frank Herbert
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love. -- Arthur Schnitzler
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination. -- Lisa Anderson
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma. -- John Stuart Blackie
The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces. -- Marie Lu
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. -- Vernon Howard
I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws. -- Amber Heard
I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.. -- David Gemmell
He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process. -- Nicholas Sparks
I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself. -- Eva Herzigova
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks. -- Alexander Herzen
There are three masks: the one we think we are, the one we really are, and the one we have in common -- Jacques Lecoq
You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don't think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams. -- Rita Rudner
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. -- Mary Balogh
In the event of a cabin failure, oxygen masks will drop from the ceiling, and untangling them will annoy you before you die. -- Frankie Boyle
When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive. -- Lissa Rankin
We create a mask to meet the masks of others. Then we wonder why we cannot love, and why we feel so alone. -- Brenda Shoshanna
I like to take a day of the week and just sort of have an at-home beauty day. I put on different masks. -- Shay Mitchell
Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong. -- Tom Robbins
Anything that provides you with very, very stable income, very stable conditions, maybe generally stable, that often, it masks real risks, risks of blow-ups. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day. -- Mark Twain
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them. -- Assata Shakur
I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects. -- Mark Grotjahn
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. -- Elinor Wylie
The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks. -- Norman Manea
Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves. -- Albert Camus
But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that." -- Chelsea Cain
There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep. -- Dion Fortune
Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can'tgrab onto. -- David Foster Wallace
Mastery occurs when you remove all the filters, masks, and obstacles so that you may more clearly see and connect to your power within-your divinity, your soul. -- Peggy Sealfon
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are -- Arthur Koestler
You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually. -- Neil Gaiman
This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy. -- Lil Wayne
In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others. -- Katherine Howe
Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head. -- Peter Ustinov
Growing up in Florida and having naturally curly hair was a bit tough. I had to learn to do treatments and masks to keep the frizz under control. -- Brittany Snow
In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween! -- Jack Prelutsky
Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks. -- Khalil Gibran
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces. -- Carolyn Kizer
Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value -- Esther Hicks
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you areâ??without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. -- Debbie Ford
his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I like to let my skin breathe when I'm not shooting or working, so that's why you'll find me on most of my social media accounts barefaced with face masks! -- Shay Mitchell
She was not crying Which surprised me very much But I understand now That she had found places For her melancholy That were behind more masks Than only her eyes -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either. -- Bob Dylan

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