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b23bd5e	When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]	time kiss love fake staring	Simone Elkeles
e5f1d76	If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications... That sect [Jews] had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust... Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore. [Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820]	lies reason god-of-abraham imposter jehovah yahweh freethought new-testament judaism freethinker skeptic skepticism fake	Thomas Jefferson
c52de9f	They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?	jodi picoult bullets fake	Jodi Picoult
f9951fc	Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!	delicate strength-of-a-woman stupidity inspirational-life inspirational-quotes strength wisdom inspirational parable stupidity-of-man gentle parables genuine silk soft real wisdom-quotes fake	C. JoyBell C.
2962835	Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?	tragedy loss dream identity dreams false-hope facade fake play sad	Arthur Miller
a4b863f	You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.	funny cellophane cellophane-wrap hokey humanitarian jesus-complex messiah-complex pretentious self-righteousness pretend see-through fake	Rebecca McNutt
2bcfb40	Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.	mind women inspire god love unreal worry christian fake thought	Elizabeth George
81419c3	No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me.	haruki-murakami may-kasahara empty fake sad	Haruki Murakami
26e4889	"If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!" "Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak."	tweedle-dum-and-tweedle-dee waxworks alive wonderland disbelief fake	Lewis Carroll
21a2c3e	in these shitty plastic days ...	loss change a-new-era a-new-world electronic-revolution the-good-days-are-gone new-age stuck-in-a-rut life-sucks plastic the-past the-world fake changes destruction human-nature technology	Gillian Flynn
d533e1c	Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.	kindness julian-morrow the-secret-history elegance fake	Donna Tartt
bdcb869	I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.	dream reality fox-tv real fake	Blake Nelson
9d645e6	Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.	sleep deams false cynical fake lie nightmare	Rebecca McNutt
6f2c837	"The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")"	authenticity fake	Cornell Woolrich
b71ad32	I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide for low-voltage outdoor lighting. It wasn't thrilling bubble-bath reading material, but I was impressed by his imagination. You wouldn't know from the writing that he'd never actually seen a low-voltage lighting system in someone's yard, much less installed one himself. His descriptions were clear, colorful, and written with authority. The inscription wasn't bad either: To Natalie, You're a high-voltage system as far as I am concerned.	reading fraudulence inscription instruction-manual instructions manual signed user-guide fake	Lee Goldberg
40294d6	"I try not to look obvious as I wait for Mom's answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other. "Oh, of course!" Mom exclaims, her voice trilling with laughter. "How could I have forgotten?" And now I know. Really know. This woman is not my mother. I don't know who she is, but I know absolutely who she is not."	lies ella-shepard fake scared	Beth Revis
a1a6a40	"In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces. Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me."	theatre morality mask corporate-culture corporate-world phony faking fake masks smile moral smiling drama self-control	Barbara Ehrenreich
e604c4c	Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now.	criminal imitation cops fake emotions interrogation police	Charlie Huston
14fcaf9	"Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked blast," Jud would say, and Mandy would snap photos with a 35mm disposable film camera, photos she wished very much she could step into sometimes."	photography family 35mm-camera snowball-fight wicked-blast cape-breton nova-scotia sister brother coal canada christmas fake siblings snow	Rebecca McNutt
4ce43ed	She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones.	fake smile	Aimee Bender
7c6eb50	Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.	gloss photograph magazine photo shallow plastic superficial fake makeup fashion pretty ugly	Rebecca McNutt

b23bd5e

When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]

time kiss love fake staring

Simone Elkeles

e5f1d76

If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early, and the fanatics of the latter ages, the conclusion would be irresistible by every sound mind that he was an impostor... We find in the writings of his biographers matter of two distinct descriptions. First, a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstitions, fanaticisms and fabrications... That sect [Jews] had presented for the object of their worship, a being of terrific character, cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust... Jesus had to walk on the perilous confines of reason and religion: and a step to right or left might place him within the gripe of the priests of the superstition, a blood thirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the being whom they represented as the family God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares, too, to entangle him in the web of the law... That Jesus did not mean to impose himself on mankind as the son of God, physically speaking, I have been convinced by the writings of men more learned than myself in that lore. [Letter to William Short, 4 August, 1820]

lies reason god-of-abraham imposter jehovah yahweh freethought new-testament judaism freethinker skeptic skepticism fake

Thomas Jefferson

c52de9f

They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out?

jodi picoult bullets fake

Jodi Picoult

f9951fc

Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!

delicate strength-of-a-woman stupidity inspirational-life inspirational-quotes strength wisdom inspirational parable stupidity-of-man gentle parables genuine silk soft real wisdom-quotes fake

C. JoyBell C.

2962835

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

tragedy loss dream identity dreams false-hope facade fake play sad

Arthur Miller

a4b863f

You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.

funny cellophane cellophane-wrap hokey humanitarian jesus-complex messiah-complex pretentious self-righteousness pretend see-through fake

Rebecca McNutt

2bcfb40

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.

mind women inspire god love unreal worry christian fake thought

Elizabeth George

81419c3

No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing thay isn't fake is that gooshy thing inside me.

haruki-murakami may-kasahara empty fake sad

Haruki Murakami

26e4889

"If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!" "Contrariwise," added the one marked 'DEE', "if you think we're alive, you ought to speak."

tweedle-dum-and-tweedle-dee waxworks alive wonderland disbelief fake

Lewis Carroll

21a2c3e

in these shitty plastic days ...

loss change a-new-era a-new-world electronic-revolution the-good-days-are-gone new-age stuck-in-a-rut life-sucks plastic the-past the-world fake changes destruction human-nature technology

Gillian Flynn

d533e1c

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

kindness julian-morrow the-secret-history elegance fake

Donna Tartt

bdcb869

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.

dream reality fox-tv real fake

Blake Nelson

9d645e6

Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.

sleep deams false cynical fake lie nightmare

Rebecca McNutt

6f2c837

"The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")"

authenticity fake

Cornell Woolrich

b71ad32

I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide for low-voltage outdoor lighting. It wasn't thrilling bubble-bath reading material, but I was impressed by his imagination. You wouldn't know from the writing that he'd never actually seen a low-voltage lighting system in someone's yard, much less installed one himself. His descriptions were clear, colorful, and written with authority. The inscription wasn't bad either: To Natalie, You're a high-voltage system as far as I am concerned.

reading fraudulence inscription instruction-manual instructions manual signed user-guide fake

Lee Goldberg

40294d6

"I try not to look obvious as I wait for Mom's answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other. "Oh, of course!" Mom exclaims, her voice trilling with laughter. "How could I have forgotten?" And now I know. Really know. This woman is not my mother. I don't know who she is, but I know absolutely who she is not."

lies ella-shepard fake scared

Beth Revis

a1a6a40

"In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for example, in "The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism", and Robert Jackall, in "Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate managers", refer repeatedly to the "masks" that corporate functionaries are required to wear, like actors in an ancient Greek drama. According to Jackall, corporate managers stress the need to exercise iron self-control and to mask all emotion and intention behind bland, smiling, and agreeable public faces. Kimberly seems to have perfected the requisite phoniness and even as I dislike her, my whole aim is to be welcomed into the same corporate culture that she seems to have mastered, meaning that I need to "get in the face" of my revulsion and overcome it. But until I reach that transcendent point, I seem to be stuck in an emotional space left over from my midteen years: I hate you; please love me."

theatre morality mask corporate-culture corporate-world phony faking fake masks smile moral smiling drama self-control

Barbara Ehrenreich

e604c4c

Most undercover cops are vastly skilled at compartmentalization. It is a talent as valued as lying. They seal off their real feelings and create imitation emotions. Easily torn down when it's time to show the badge, drag someone downtown, and sit across from him in an interrogation cell and tell him how fucked he is now.

criminal imitation cops fake emotions interrogation police

Charlie Huston

14fcaf9

"Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked blast," Jud would say, and Mandy would snap photos with a 35mm disposable film camera, photos she wished very much she could step into sometimes."

photography family 35mm-camera snowball-fight wicked-blast cape-breton nova-scotia sister brother coal canada christmas fake siblings snow

Rebecca McNutt

4ce43ed

She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones.

fake smile

Aimee Bender

7c6eb50

Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.

gloss photograph magazine photo shallow plastic superficial fake makeup fashion pretty ugly

Rebecca McNutt