Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.
That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is....Most people love you for who you pretend to be....To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...
An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay.
I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.
Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.
The best way to not get your heart broken, is pretending you don't have one.
There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
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