Pretend Quotes
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Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else.
Liane Moriarty
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
Jonathan Swift
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It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.
Frank Iero
My Chemical Romance
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We cannot pretend we do not have problems; we cannot pretend things are not wrong in our country. A lot of things are wrong.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
Charles Dickens
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We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration.
Bob Herbert
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After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.
Blixa Bargeld
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I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.
Martin Luther
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And someone turns out the lights in the library, as if being in the dark will make them invisible, but the noise reaches into the house, into the room, into their lungs. Someone is being beaten in the street below. What are they going to do? How long can you pretend this is not happening?
Edmund de Waal
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You had to hide everything from men. They preferred not to know, they preferred to pretend that what happened at the hands of the boss miraculously didn’t happen to the women important to them and that—this was the idea they had grown up with—they had to protect her.
Elena Ferrante
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler
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At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.
Brennan Manning
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You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.
Scott Adkins
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
Moliere
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It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.
Ellen Wittlinger
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
Moliere
