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PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

by Frank Warren · 2005

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a… more

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Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it.
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I am the type of person that I complain about.
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If ever I was in a plane that was going down, rather than screaming, crying and railing against the inevitable, I would look out the window, watch my death speeding toward me, and fully appreciate the final experience of my life.
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When I drive 'home' and leave you, it makes me feel like I'm driving to nowhere - to nothing - to a place that doesn't make me feel.
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My biggest regret is being naive enough in thinking that what happened is a big enough reason to miss out on each other's live.
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I've just gotta save myself and then I'm Yours.
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There are days when I go to church just for the chance to maybe see her smile at me.
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Love you. A stranger accidentally text messaged me the other day. I didn't delete it. I look at it before I go to bed at night and sometimes during the day. I know it wasn't meant for me... but it's nice to pretend it was.
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I make you believe that I am racist ... so you wouldn't suspect that I had sex with your best friend.
How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human,
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I believe that one day I will like myself.
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I LEAVE poetry IN LIBRARY BOOKS.
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I STOLE YOUR DUCK AND TOOK HIM TO SAN FRANCISCO
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I always wait a few days before returning e-mails from my friends because I don't want them to think I have nothing better to do
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Sharon: innocent freckle-faced red-haired good Sharon: I was a vicious, vengeful compulsive BRUTE to you at school. 30+ years on-Now I'm very sorry
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I'm sorry, We were Young, I think about--and Regret--it every Day.
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When i see an ugly bride, what i am really seeing is a glimmer of hope for the future [maybe i will marry someday.]
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I TRASHED MY PARENTS HOUSE TO LOOK LIKE I HAD HAD A PARTY WHY THEY WERE OUT OF TOWN… … MY MOM WOULD THINK I HAD FRIENDS:

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The project that captured a nation's imagination.

The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary.

You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative.

It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously.

The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears,

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First published
2005
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3.99 (136k ratings)

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