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8a6272f We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. choice inspiration imagination life attitude pretend Kurt Vonnegut
c73909d Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. pretend Orson Scott Card
7d8ab80 I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. sleep look-forward the-bell-jar pillow pretend sylvia-plath night Sylvia Plath
5089574 If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ... situation pretend Sophie Kinsella
4a4cda7 They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. imagination pretend school Margaret Atwood
e1bf62f You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control. pretend life-lesson Jodi Picoult
ae0a77a Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not. be-yourself acting adage adages aphorisms audacity axiom axioms balls cojones conforming courageousness dictum dictums fit-in hardihood heroism herself human-being intrepidity made-me-think make-you-think maxims motivated moxie murder murdered oneself persons pluckiness pretender pretenders profound provoke-thought quotation spunk standout themselves true-grit daring humour bravery courage inspired people human fear quote inspiration inspire death motivational humor inspirational fearful actor saying lemons conform animal pluck courageous lemon plants nerve boldness motive plant words-to-live-by killed gnomes nonconformity orange maxim tree brave actors façades act grit epigram epigrams gnome produce deep fitting-in valour proverbs facade aphorism pretending quotations sayings pretend conformity gallantry peoples guts standing-out trees animals satire satirical self thought-provoking person himself yourself quotes human-beings thoughtful insightful proverb humans kill fearlessness dead fruit fruits die Mokokoma Mokhonoana
84f2d18 And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through. kids disappoint more-like-us spectacular than-we-think pretend damaged perfect Jodi Picoult
123e274 It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else. life love pretend in-love moment Melissa de la Cruz
dc48ec5 I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. pretend normalcy Madeleine L'Engle
c2f7d3d The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend. life houses masterpieces personalities romances clothes cities pretend wars rooms machines Alan Moore
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
0a87ca2 I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes. pretend L.M. Montgomery
930afe5 It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn't it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn't playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules. reality fantasy playing-games playing pretending pretend fantastic games fantasies game children childhood Francesca Lia Block
afe6e57 "Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone," her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ring. "Where've you been, what've you been up to?" "Mom, do you remember when I was a kid, I had a friend, he was a Personification of the Sydney Tar Ponds, sort of my imaginary friend?" Mandy asked. "No, what in the name of god are you on about?" her mom sighed in exasperation. "Remember? Only I could see him, but he was real and he was my best friend when I was eighteen?" Mandy insisted. "No, I don't remember Alecto Sydney Steele at all," said her mom all too quickly." family friendship imaginary-companion imaginary-playmate invisible-friend pretend-friend sydney-tar-ponds imaginary-friend cape-breton nova-scotia call telephone dysfunctional-families eighteen pretend canada conversation friend talk girl mom mother invisible remember phone Rebecca McNutt
e59fe9f Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future! passion future heart love duplicities pretend test sincerity Honoré de Balzac
2f19633 "On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear." pretend sad Joyce Carol Oates
acfd3d5 I can pretend it's all pretend! I can be the life of your death and you can be the death of my life... what a trade-off! life trade-off vow pretend trade sad Rebecca McNutt
044e578 The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird's wing beating, the world seems unreal. man world heart despised ever prepares reeks shield wing turn unreal run bird field pretend shit home wall Bernard Cornwell
3700b3a No time to worry about that now. In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. In ten minutes, George will have to be George--the George they have named and will recognize. So now he consciously applies himself to thinking their thoughts, getting into their mood. With the skill of a veteran he rapidly puts on the psychological make-up for this role he must play. pretend Christopher Isherwood
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