Quotes About Pretense

You have to learn to look at someone you truly adore through eyes that really aren´t your own. It´s as if a person has to become another person altogether to be able to take a hard look. Good people protect people they love, even if that means pretending that everything is okay.

Life must go on, even if it's no joke...just pretend to believe in the future.

This world, I assure you, is only a vast device for kidding the world!

Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere.

It was getting harder to fake the smile, harder to make the effort.

What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies. We've got to act a comedy now, dead serious.

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

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Enquanto os meses passam, faze de conta que estás no teatro, entre um ato e outro, conversando. Lá dentro preparam a cena, e os artistas mudam de roupa. Não vás lá; deixa que a dama, no camarim, ria com os seus amigos o que chorou cá fora com os espectadores. Quanto ao jardim que se está fazendo, não te exponhas a vê-lo pelas costas; é pura lona velha sem pintura, porque só a parte do espectador é que tem verdes flores

Some pretend to be rich, yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth. Proverbs 13:7

When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or the Nose with the Luminous Dong! Or at best, like Clare, weaving fearful vision ... A frustrated poet in every man. Though it is perhaps a good idea under the circumstances to pretend at least to be proceeding with one's great work on Secret Knowledge, then one can always say when it never comes out that the title explains the deficiency.

No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.

But sometimes when you wore a mask for a very long time, it became your face.

Every word, every gesture is now loaded with ambiguity, nothing can be taken at face value. We speak to each other from a safe distance, pretending all the years we soaped each other's backs and pissed in front of each other never happened. We don't use any of the baby talk, code words, or short hand gestures that had been our language of intimacy, the proof that we belonged to each other.

When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

am discovering her pretenses. She is always smiling, gay, but underneath she feels unreal, remote, detached from experience. She acts as if she were asleep. She is trying to awaken by falling into bed with anyone who invites her.

The secret of my lies must be that which makes for good acting. I never plunge into a lie carelessly, without first telling myself: "How would I feel if this were true?

Do not pose in your own presence. Id est: do not affect the qualities and virtues you would like to have but have not.

One wants to deceive people, and one is so much occupied with seeming, that one ends by not knowing what one really is.…

Somehow she was becoming the kind of woman she didn't like, somebody who felt one way but smiled it off in a mask of cheerfulness, the kind of woman who got very good at small talk.

They don't act like human beings and they're pretty proud of it so there's no point in pretending they are; though you want to - pretend.

but can one "get" an edge any more than one can "get" a sense of humor? Or do you fake it, the way a humorless businessman memorizes jokes and is considered "a riot," leaving parties before he runs out of material?

And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think: How far, HOW FAR, we are willing to go to pretend we are not of the body at all.

Could she kiss him? Would he allow her that? Was that something he could pretend was nothing? What about making love? Could she just open up her legs and pull him inside her and have him all she wanted and later give her assent that it was nothing?