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• I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

  Spencer Tracy

  Depression, Tired, Fine

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• When I was sixteen I was pretending to be Charlie Musselwhite. I had a long raincoat on, my hair slicked back, and the shades.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Hair, Long, Shade

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• We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

  Agatha Christie

  Years, People, Twenties

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• The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

  Edmund Burke

  Power, Men, World

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.23

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• I think it was the one thing I didn’t like about him or about guys in general: when a girl says she doesn’t want to talk about it, the truth is that she usually does. I wanted him to pry it out of me. Of course, I would’ve pretended to be a little angry that he didn’t just leave me alone, but eventually I would’ve told him, when I was tired of pretending.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Girl, Tired, Thinking

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• Mr. Branwell and Mr. Carstairs seem to have no problem cleaning their boots,” Sophie said, looking darkly from Will to Tessa. “Perhaps you could learn from their example.” “Perhaps,” said Will. “But I doubt it.” Sophie scowled, and started off along the corridor again, her shoulders tightly set with indignation. Tessa looked at Will in amazement. “What was that?” Will shrugged lazily. “Sophie enjoys pretending she doesn’t like me.” “Doesn’t like you? She hates you!

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Doubt, Example

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Love, Letting Go, Mean

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• I think a lot guys get laid pretending to be Shaggy 2 Dope because without his paint he's a lot more unrecognizable. He's not a gimpy gorilla like me.

  Joseph Bruce

  Dope, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here and there and scattering my emotional and intellectual possessions. There was no point in pretending that I had not fallen, for when we are stretched out in the dirt we must pick ourselves up and brush off our clothes. This then, in a sense, is what I did, reviewing my considered opinions on marriage, constancy, man's nature, and the importance of love. When I had picked up my possessions and repaired my appearance, I fell asleep.

  John Cheever

  Love, Fall, Men

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”

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• Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

  Ilona Andrews

  Tired, Brake, Standing

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.39, Penguin

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• When he admitted this to me, I found myself almost annoyed. It was as if he'd hidden this part of himself in order to deceive me, pretending-- as do many people I've discovered--to be what he is not. No one I've ever known is what he appears to be on the surface.

  Daniel Keyes

  Order, People, Annoyed

  Bert Coules, Daniel Keyes (1993). “The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon”, p.65, Heinemann

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• The moment the light went out, everyone stopped pretending.

  Isaac Marion

  Light, Moments

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.

  Shirley Jackson

  Moon, World, Tongue

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

  Robert Henri

  Weakness, Knows

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.177, Basic Books

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• No one has it all figured out, especially not the people who are acting like they do and judging you because of it. Pretending to be something you aren't because you're trying to please a bunch of judgmental hypocrites and shitheads is not the way to be happy. Living the life you want to live is. It really is that simple.

  Tucker Max

  Live Life, Hypocrite, Simple

  Tucker Max (2011). “Assholes Finish First”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

  Lauren Oliver

  Happiness, Fiction, Requiem

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• The difficult thing, the glorious thing, was to be who you really were, even if that person was cruel or dangerous, particularly if cruel and dangerous. There was courage in not distinguishing the animal you happened to be. On the other hand, you had to avoid pretending to be more of an animal than you were: take that path, start exaggerating or faking and you became just another Cubby, just as much of a liar, a hypocrite

  J. K. Rowling

  Liars, Hypocrite, Animal

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• Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Honesty, Talking, People

  Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie (1987). “Rashomon”, p.122, Rutgers University Press

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• The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

  Paul Fussell

  Art, Past, Imagination

  Paul Fussell (1982). “The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't think "I'm going to publish this as fiction" but I think "I'm going to tell this story to a friend" and then I start telling the story in my mind as the experience transpires as a way of pretending it's already happened.

  Ben Lerner

  Thinking, Mind, Fiction

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Perfection, Grace, Performing

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2015

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• We try to use obvious Canadian touches whenever we can, and I'm really proud of the way we use Vancouver for its production value. Nobody is pretending that we're not shooting in Canada, which is really important to me. The other wonderful thing is that ABC has bought us, but they air us after CTV has had the full season air on Canadian television. That's another thing that I think is really a nod towards the importance of us acknowledging our own industry.

  Kristin Lehman

  Thinking, Air, Trying

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• I think the understanding of oneness and interconnectivity of the whole Universe is something we have innately, something we're born with. We are however very skillful at ignoring and pretending we don't have or know it.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Oneness, Understanding

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.

  Michael Gungor

  Christian, Perfect, Culture

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

  Douglas Booth

  Running, Kids, Garden

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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