Colson Whitehead
Author
"A monster is a person who has stopped pretending."
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Pretending
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William Joyce
Author
"To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space."
Meryl Streep
Actress, Producer
"Pretending is a very valuable life skill."
Rich Mullins
Musician
"It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The world is full of actors pretending to be human"
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"There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so."
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"You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now."
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"I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else."
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"I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well."
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"Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are."
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"Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential."
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"I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could."
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"Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there."
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"We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man."
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"I spend my working life pretending to be someone else."
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"What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?"
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"Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled."
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"All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary"
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"And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana."
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"We are the universe pretending to be individuals."
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"When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out."
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"To be authentic is to stop pretending to be what think you are, because you are not."
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"The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist."
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"I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing."
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"My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending."
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