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Pretending quotes

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“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don’t know.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“This is the way human beings contrive to feed their self-destructive vices: trying not to see them, trying not to acknowledge them, delaying the important decisions and pretending that nothing will happen.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'

“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.” Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

“Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn’t such a great skill to have.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.” Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

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