1. "Carelessness is the handmaiden to tragedy indiscretion."
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Quote by Charles Bukowski
2. "If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion."
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Quote by Mark Twain
3. "A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all."
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Quote by Thomas Hardy
4. "Secrets are the currency of intelligence work, and among professional spies a little calculated indiscretion raises the exchange rate."
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Ben Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
5. "My own seal. Imitated. My photograph. Bought. We were both in the photograph. Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an indiscretion."
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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
6. "Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret."
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Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
7. "Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good."
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Julia Cameron, Transitions
8. "For this indiscretion Seneca relegates the emperor (Claudius) to a Sisyphean gamester's hell: condemned eternally to pick up the bones and thow them into a dice cup that has no bottom."
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Ricky Jay, Dice: Deception
9. "How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty."
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Milan Kundera, Ignorance
10. "When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?"
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Quote by Kiran Desai