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The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
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family
friends
insincerity
kindness
loneliness
pretense
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Edith Wharton |
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I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.
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distress
empowerment
get-over-it
james-patterson
maximum-ride
pretense
trouble
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James Patterson |
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After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice.
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pretense
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Tom Perrotta |
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[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.
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caring
children
cuteness
hypocrisy
kids
neglect
parents
pretense
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Emma Donoghue |
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So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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falsehood
law
ornament
pretense
religion
vice
virtue
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William Shakespeare |
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The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.
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disguise
method-acting
pretense
role-playing
sherlock-holmes
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Arthur Conan Doyle |
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"As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, "I was waiting for her to ask 'Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?' Why didn't she just ask 'Was it the black girl or the white girl?'" Ginika laughed. "Because this is America. You're supposed to pretend that you don't notice certain things."
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pretense
race
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.
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cakes
humor
modesty
pretense
tea-parties
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.
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new-york
pretense
transitions
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Edith Wharton |
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"That dung flop?" Nakita said, her dislike almost visibly dripping into nasty puddles at Amy's designer flats. "Yes, I guess. That doesn't mean I have to like him." "I know what you mean." Amy faked a heartfelt sigh. "I have a brother too." The girls behind her giggled when she pushed past me to Barnabas. "I'm Amy," she said, smiling as she extended her hand." "Barnabas," the reaper said as he darted past me to give Nakita a sideways hug to avoid having to shake Amy's hand. "This is Nakita. She's my favorite sister. We're from Norway."
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pretense
siblings
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Kim Harrison |