A Quote by Harper Lee

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

Harper Lee

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Behind Behind Closed Doors Closed Closed Doors Doors Happen Happens Houses Know Never People Really Secrets Things

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Harper Lee
American - Novelist
April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016

I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

Ottessa Moshfegh

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

Rachel Morrison

You don't have Republicans and Democrats behind closed doors. We have people passionate about national security behind closed doors. And I think that's the way that it should be.

James Lankford

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

Brenda Blethyn

You never know what's really happening behind closed doors. Everything isn't always what it seems.

Kim Zolciak-Biermann

My experience - I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for something, but I've never had an experience that made me feel any less than.

Rachel Morrison

The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, windows closed, shutters closed. A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall. This wall hears, sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. It gazes at you and condemns you. What dismal things are closed houses.

Victor Hugo

I do know I've lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

Chris Gethard

You never know what goes on behind closed doors.

Belinda Carlisle

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

Maurice Maeterlinck

People need to understand that what happens in people's homes and behind closed doors, unless you were there, you really shouldn't make any analogy or any assumption, which writers do quite a bit. It's not something I ever for one second thought about. This is not my life story, and I've never told my life story, and I have no interest in telling my life story.