Pretending Quotes - Page 26

• The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

  George Santayana

  World, Moments, Contradiction

  George Santayana (1936). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

  Dan Savage

  Dream, Husband, Divorce

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• I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

  Alexei Sayle

  Summer, Nice, Winter

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• Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Sex, Stars

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• I played soccer, and I was the kid who ran the wrong way, or I was pretending to be some sort of zebra and I would flail my arms and kick up my legs.

  Johnny Weir

  Soccer, Zebras, Kids

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• I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Stupid, Bad Ass

  "What I know about men". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2006.

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• I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Thinking, Honor

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• It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

  Nick Hornby

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.

  Tom Perrotta

  Children, People, Choices

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Games, Two

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.26, Penguin

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• Eating plain toast will detonate her. "I'll have some honey." When the bread is done I scrape on a microscopic layer of it and pour a cup of coffee, black. She pretends not to listen or watch as I crunch through my breakfast. I pretend that I don't notice her pretending.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Coffee, Black, Watches

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.143, Scholastic UK

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• ...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

  Alice Hoffman

  Crime, Worst

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

  Charles Baxter

  Smart, Party, Looks

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• Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Believe, Doe, Glamour

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• New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.

  Peter Cameron

  Summer, New York, Stars

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

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• You gain power by pretending to be weak.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Power, Gains, Weak

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you've done to Jim and how you've made him miserable all his life. I'm going to protect him against you. I'll put you in your place. I'm Mrs. Taggart. I'm the woman in this family now.' 'That's quite all right,' said Dagny. 'I'm the man.

  Ayn Rand

  Sweet, Men, Voice

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.303, Hamilton Books

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• I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.

  Sloane Crosley

  Phones, Cells, Tears

  Sloane Crosley (2008). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.35, Penguin

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• I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

  Margaret Atwood

  Tree, Corners

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sleep, Noise, Eating Animals

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• the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

  Pearl Cleage

  Knowing, Problem, Possibility

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• The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Morality, Hounds

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• Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

  China Mieville

  Ideas, Ridiculous, Fantastic

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• For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.

  Stephen King

  Loss, Dark, Gun

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

  Ani DiFranco

  Sound, Looks, Wonder

  Song: Work Your Way Out, Album: Ani DiFranco

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