pretending

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ac3bd32	A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.	soothing imagination dreams strength heart inspirational imaginary-friend richelle richelle-goodrich healing pretending soul	Richelle E. Goodrich
3e3560c	Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.	emma-watson love inspirational pretending	Emma Watson
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
948be75	Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.	kids youth love intuitive pretending intuition	V.C. Andrews
f39fc94	I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.	war believing tsar-nicholas-ii otma romanovs russian-revolution pretending russia	Sarah Miller
d14dec9	So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.	the-truth good-people pretending hypocrisy human-nature roles	Orson Scott Card
f0cb4b4	I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)	lies writer writing reality fantasy compulsive-lying crazy-bitch out-of-touch-with-reality wannabewriter superiority-complex self-righteous egotistical vainity vain pretending wannabe ego smile smiling liar lie	Gillian Flynn
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
81bd0b2	When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We were just acting out the strangest, tragic little roles, pretending to be criminals in order to get by. We gave very convincing performances.	pretending	Heather O'Neill
ed796bb	Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.	mourning grief death pretending survival	Julian Barnes
7928917	maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was	w-is-for-wasted sue-grafton pretending	Sue Grafton
8a5b186	Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. Andre Chevalier	lies relationships pretending intimacy	Nikki Sex
ed8a09c	That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)	fear finn hayley pretending knife parents sports	Laurie Halse Anderson

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

soothing imagination dreams strength heart inspirational imaginary-friend richelle richelle-goodrich healing pretending soul

Richelle E. Goodrich

3e3560c

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

emma-watson love inspirational pretending

Emma Watson

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

948be75

Children are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.

kids youth love intuitive pretending intuition

V.C. Andrews

f39fc94

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

war believing tsar-nicholas-ii otma romanovs russian-revolution pretending russia

Sarah  Miller

d14dec9

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

the-truth good-people pretending hypocrisy human-nature roles

Orson Scott Card

f0cb4b4

I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any time on a form, questionnaire, document asks for my occupation. Fine, I write personality quizzes, I don't write about the Great Issues of the Day, but I think it's fair to say I am a writer ... ('Adopted-orphan smile', I mean, that's not bad, come on.)

lies writer writing reality fantasy compulsive-lying crazy-bitch out-of-touch-with-reality wannabewriter superiority-complex self-righteous egotistical vainity vain pretending wannabe ego smile smiling liar lie

Gillian Flynn

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

81bd0b2

When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We were just acting out the strangest, tragic little roles, pretending to be criminals in order to get by. We gave very convincing performances.

pretending

Heather O'Neill

ed796bb

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

mourning grief death pretending survival

Julian Barnes

7928917

maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was

w-is-for-wasted sue-grafton pretending

Sue Grafton

8a5b186

Mostly, it is lies that will destroy a relationship. Deceit is a barrier to intimacy. Andre Chevalier

lies relationships pretending intimacy

Nikki Sex

ed8a09c

That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)

fear finn hayley pretending knife parents sports

Laurie Halse Anderson