"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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"We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them."
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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep."
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"There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep."
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"I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending."
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"There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know."
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"I'm crap at pretending to be something I'm not when I'm in my real life."
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"If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else."
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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."
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"I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it."
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"I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be."
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"Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice."
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"We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't."
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