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• What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

  Sharon Creech

  Courage, Fear, People

  Sharon Creech (2009). “Walk Two Moons”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

  Caryl Churchill

  Thinking, Alive, Realising

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• I have encountered a few "creationists" and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad or only pretending to be mad. If I was a religious person, I would consider creationism nothing less than blasphemy. Do its adherents imagine that God is a cosmic hoaxer who has created the whole vast fossil record for the sole purpose of misleading humankind?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Nice, Intelligent

  "Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke for journal "Science" (pp. 1532-1533), June 5, 1998.

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• I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything.

  Selima Hill

  Truth, Selfish, Naked

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• It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.

  Allen West

  Nice, Upset, Would Be

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• I've - that I regret. That was stupid and ignorant on my part. I went to a party as a guest of a friend of mine, a lawyer. And he had a client who I didn't know, except - maybe I'm pretending I didn't know, but he was a big investor in The New Yorker. And as I found out later in a book about The New Yorker, this guy was very unhappy about [Bill] Shawn.He thought Shawn was spending out - spending too much money on writers.

  Nat Hentoff

  Regret, Stupid, Party

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

  Ian Astbury

  Paid

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Mistake, Thinking, Important

  "Vishy Anand: 'Chess is like acting'". SPIEGEL Interview with Ansbert Kneip,Maik Großekathöfer, en.chessbase.com. October 1, 2008.

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• The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

  Vernon Howard

  People, Helping, Morality

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• I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

  Albert Finney

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Paul Fischer, "Dark Horizons", December 2, 2003.

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• I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Hardship, Paid

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

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• Good people protect people they love even if that means that pretending that everything is okay.

  Ron McLarty

  Mean, People, Protect

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• A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Snob, Fashionable

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• In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

  Matt Redman

  God, Christian, Religious

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• What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

  Doris Lessing

  Love, Inspirational, Needs

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I made some games, but I'm pretending like I didn't because they all turned out weird.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Made

  "Q&A: Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto On <cite>mario</cite>, <cite>zelda</cite>, Project Natal And More". Interview With Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. June 12, 2009.

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• David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them.

  John Connolly

  Mother, Dog, Cat

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• We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Arrows, Allies

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.135, Penguin

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• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters, Turns, Mortals

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, was I really in love or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love or was I just desperate?

  Nora Ephron

  Dream, Men, Years

  "After the Love Is Gone" by Nora Ephron, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2005.

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• Pretending to drink coffee was similar to faking an orgasm.

  Darynda Jones

  Coffee, Drink

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.161, Macmillan

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• I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance of every word, guessing at intentions, frustrating their plots, pretending to be tricked, and suddenly, with a shove, upturning the whole enormous and arduously built edifice of their cunning and schemes—that’s what I call life.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Christian, Blood, Enemy

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• I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!

  Veronica Roth

  Cities, Thrones, Sitting

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.11, HarperCollins

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• Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Jace, Happenings

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

  Desmond Tutu

  Forgiveness, Way, Treated

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