Pretending Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

  William H. Macy

  Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Pet, Losing, Sometimes

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• For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Skills, Knowing, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  "New Hopes for a Changing World". Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become Obsolete, p. 158. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1951.

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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 think everyone's kind of just whistling and pretending everything's OK. At the heart of this is the cover-up, and the misleading the country to war in Iraq. And quite honestly, I don't think Republicans actually did a particularly good or sophisticated job, but I think everybody wanted to be fooled. I remember being on the Bill Maher show talking about how ridiculous this was before the invasion. And, you know, a lot of people, even Democrats, had been so easily thrown into this fear frenzy that they lost common sense.

  Aaron McGruder

  Country, War, Heart

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Relationship, Community

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You start pretending to have fun, you might have a little by accident.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Littles, Might

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• I'm just as intrigued by acting as ever. It's an ongoing process. There's no arrival. There's no point at which you say "Oh, OK, done it, got it." It just doesn't happen. And that's true of any creative endeavor. For me, it's just a lifelong interest. I'm very much interested in the craft. I started by doing plays and it took me a long time to feel comfortable doing movies, working with cameras. I felt like I was a theater actress pretending that I was a movie actress for quite a while. Now, I just love the process of working with cameras and being on a set and trying to put a film together.

  Annette Bening

  Long, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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• The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.

  Rod Coronado

  Pyramids, Survival, Guarantees

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• My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends. I had this conservatory in my house - three steps went to up to kind of a raised part of our kitchen. I used it as the stage. Every night after school I used to download backing tracks of songs I loved and perform to myself. My mum was trying to cook and I was pretending I was at the O2 arena.

  Sam Smith

  Song, Dad, Party

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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