Fiction: a game of pretend.
The vice president (Nixon) seems like a man who is acting like a nice man rather than being one.
(n.) Alt. of Pretence
Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pre...
Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.
So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In...
There are two kinds of love: the love that is and the love that isn't.
A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.
That dung flop? Nakita said, her dislike almost visibly dripping into nasty puddles at Amy’s designer flats. Yes, I guess. That doesn’t mean I have to like him.I know what you mean. Amy faked a heartf...
As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with two eyes or the one with two legs?’ Why didn’t she just ask ‘Was it the black girl or the white girl?’G...
People pretend to be other people because they have never thought of their true selves
After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given...