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• I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile, because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it, so watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you with his mouth but the eyes stay the same. It's sure to be bogus.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Father, Real

  "Danny, the Champion of the World". Book by Roald Dahl, 1975.

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• You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Fur, Chic

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• I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Song, Thinking

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Namedropper”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I don't see what's so good about being genuine. Clog dancing is genuine. Isn't being fake more of an achievement? At least it takes some inspiration. Like, sherbet dips, they're a special food. Think of all the additives and coloring and grinding that it takes to create a sherbet dip. But carrots? They're just out there, shrieking, "Hi, we're some carrots! Love us for it!" They never have to prove themselves.

  Emma Forrest

  Inspiration, Thinking, Dancing

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• After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet? What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Elephants, White

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, March 15, 1991.

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• Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.

  Jason Mraz

  Block, Anger, Healing

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• ...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

  Kim Harrison

  Kindness, People, Empathy

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• All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Government, Political

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• He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, “I vant to drink your blood” in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen."!

  Rachel Caine

  Blood, Feet, Rose

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.75, Penguin

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• As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic

  Jay-Z

  Mom, Heart, Son

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• Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

  Zadie Smith

  Past, Men, Beard

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.15, Vintage

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• Should've thought of that before you told my ex-girlfriend I eat live kittens for breakfast." A tiny twinge of guilt. Then the cat wondered what Riley would think of her last successful "shoo-away." "Who knew she'd believe me?" [Mercy responded.] "Oh no? When you 'accidentally' opened the cupboard to expose my 'kitten cage' full of the poor, sad kitties I was going to snack on?" A raised eyebrow. "Wasn't the cage next to my special 'kitten defurring' tools?" "They were obviously fake." Bas just stared at her.

  Nalini Singh

  Girlfriend, Believe, Cat

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• I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then."

  Eddie Izzard

  Fake People, Years, Alive

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• Just take our name off the list. . . . The nomination is meaningless, because it's not voted on by the fans . . . .

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fake People, Names, Fans

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• Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

  Jacques Barzun

  Fake People, Routine, Ends

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

  James A. Baldwin

  Fake People, Deeds, Belief

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• Sentences are not as such either true or false.

  J. L. Austin

  Fake People, True Or False, Austin

  "Sense and Sensibilia" by J. L. Austin, (p. 111), 1962.

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• Most style is not honest enough.

  F. L. Lucas

  Fake People, Style, Honest

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “How to Write Powerful Prose: An essay by the author of 'Style'”, p.10, Harriman House Limited

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• Amarillio, just turn to the left and 500 yards down

  Peter Kay

  Fake People, Yards, Turns

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• I must've got whacked on the head.
  He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

  Christie Brinkley

  Fake People, Falling In Love, Persons

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• We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

  Terry Brooks

  Fake People, Trying, Tests

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• Fake feeling good.... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.

  Jean Bach

  Believe, Effort, Feel Good

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• ...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its fake aura of purity and virtue while fronting some of the ugliest ideas this planet has ever seen. Closing people's hearts when it should be opening them. Making them proud of things they should be ashamed of. And ashamed of things they should be proud of.

  Pat Condell

  Fear, Heart, Ignorance

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• 50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Fashion, Fur, Cheesecake

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• Anyone who tries to make you believe that he knows all about wines is obviously a fake.

  Leon Adams

  Believe, Wine, Trying

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