Pretence Quotes
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“Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.”
― City of Lost Souls
― City of Lost Souls
“Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.”
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“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.”
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“There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”
― Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
― Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
Three weeks later Sybil reaffirmed her belief in the existence of her other selves in a letter to Miss Updyke, the school nurse of undergraduate days.”
― Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Three weeks later Sybil reaffirmed her belief in the existence of her other selves in a letter to Miss Updyke, the school nurse of undergraduate days.”
― Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“Life is an act and we are all actors in the arena of life. We all do act each day from dawn to dusk. Some act well but some act to cover their acts”
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“Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.”
― Tower Lord
― Tower Lord
“Courage?" I gave a very soft laugh. "I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.”
― Queen of Fire
― Queen of Fire
“heroes don’t haunt
so what did that make you”
― you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry
so what did that make you”
― you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry
“Treat loyal people right; else you will be surrounded by sycophants.”
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense”
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“Power comes at a price, love," Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square.
"What power?"
"All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the lust of the old goat you're about to meet."
"Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone."
Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.”
― Queen of Fire
"What power?"
"All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the lust of the old goat you're about to meet."
"Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone."
Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. "Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.”
― Queen of Fire
“(...) świat się skończył, choć zatrzymał pozory trwania. Tak wygląda prawdziwy koniec.”
― House of Day, House of Night
― House of Day, House of Night
“Beyond a shadow of a doubt, some associates are nothing but shadow friends. When adversities cast shadow over us they stop pretending and become their real selves.”
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“she knows how to play the good part
that’s how you lose your good judgement”
― you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry
that’s how you lose your good judgement”
― you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry
“I was not innocent, and I had tired of the pretence of being so, though it had amused me for a time.”
― The Erotic Notebooks
― The Erotic Notebooks
“Bad friends say nice things to your face, and then turn around and paint you black.”
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“I could not wail. Must I?
Do I need to pretend?
Please! Will somebody understand?
Can you detach me from tradition?
Please leave me alone.”
― Sublime Shadows Of Life
Do I need to pretend?
Please! Will somebody understand?
Can you detach me from tradition?
Please leave me alone.”
― Sublime Shadows Of Life
“Pretence is beautiful if you don't stop. That is called repentance. Let the pretense go on non-stop.”
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“When you need someone, don't pretend you don't need them, thinking that they will need you with time. Cos those you think may need you, might not.”
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“For half an hour I kept up the pretence, but I knew perfectly well that he knew what was going on in me, or he would not have kept off the subject of the greatest importance to us both; the evening of the day before.”
― Reunion
― Reunion
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