Make Believe Quotes

• Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Animal, Men

  William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.246

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• It's all make believe, isn't it?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Believe

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• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  Ramakrishna

  Believe, World, Mixtures

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

  Shirley Temple

  Inspirational, Believe, Past

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• Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Faith, Believe

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• Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

  Matt Groening

  Hilarious, Believe, Vampire

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". "The Simpsons. Treehouse of Horror IV", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

  Katherine Heigl

  Children, Believe, Play

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• We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

  Ugo Betti

  Hate, Believe, Play

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• If the land of make believe is inside your heart it will never leave.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Believe, Heart, Land

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• Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Believe, Reality, Easy

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

  Burt Lancaster

  Truth, Believe, Reality

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• To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. - Stephen Leacockof Christmas trees around the house, so it smells good.

  Bill Murray

  Christmas, Believe, Essence

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• If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

  Morgan Freeman

  Real, Believe, Ocean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Play, Way

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2017

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• I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Children, Cameras, Theatrical

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Believe, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.291, Random House

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• Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Meaningful, Real, Believe

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• Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Believe, Writing, Reality

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Drama, Believe, Doe

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• It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

  William Kittredge

  Art, War, Believe

  William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr

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• One of the great disadvantages of a literary or scriptural tradition like the biblical one is that a deity or context of deities becomes crystallized, petrified at a certain time and place. The deity doesn’t continue to grow, expand, or take into account new cultural forces and new realizations in the sciences, and the result is this make-believe conflict we have in our culture between science and religion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Believe, Biblical, Culture

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• When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Doors, Knowing

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• I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had helped me to survive, this lovely world that was to be mine when the war was over.

  Gerda Weissmann Klein

  War, Loneliness, Believe

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• If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Games, Play

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

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