Quotes About Pretense

Who (people from her other life) didn't know how much work it could be to make people think you you were normal.

A man who makes money from apparent but unreal wisdom

Some people you can't comfort. You can only go along with their pretending and pretend yourself.

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

the astonishing thing the thing I like is that I should have admitted it. No compromise no act: that proper little woman was me all right. I'm clean I'm straight I don't join in any act: that makes them mad they hate being seen through they want you to believe the stuff they hand out or at least pretend to.

He liked Ross Ireland; he found particularly amusing, very like his own cultural pretenses, the fact that since Ireland was totally unable to learn any language save Iowan, he thundered that English was enough to take anybody anywhere and that these fellows that talk about your having to know French if you're going to do political stuff in Europe are just trying to show what smart guys they are.

You keep saying 'I'm fine' to people when you're not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: 'Why aren't I fine?

Everyone knows, the point of an interview is not to demonstrate who you are, but to pretend to be whatever sort of person they want for the job.

OK. The trick is when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is not to overreact. Instead, keep your chin up and pretend nothing happened.

You keep saying "I'm fine" to people when you're not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: "Why aren't I fine?

Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life. Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.

What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.

These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

Being yourself is an old myth, being fake in this world of cruelness is a new trick

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!

I will never understand the determination behind a fake personality

We always need a reason to live, and we pretend to have it.

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on.

Eas'd the putting offThese troublesome disguises which we wear.

It doesn't matter. As long as the government pretends it's a secret, the pretense, no matter how thin, gives it certain advantages. Or it thinks it does. Politics is weird that way.

The one thing you are not good at is playing dumb.

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

Senti. Non mi va di vedere Procida mentre s'allontana, e si confonde, diventa come una cosa grigia...Preferisco fingere che non sia esistita. Perciò, fino al momento che non se ne vede più niente, sarà meglio ch'io non guardi là.