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«The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.»
Author: Chris Cobbs | About: Memory, Past | Keywords: exists, go back, invite, mess, otherwise, pretend
«The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.»
Author: Freya Stark | Keywords: pretend, surprised
«The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember»
Author: Harold Pinter (Playwright) | About: Memory, Past | Keywords: convince, pretend
«The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.»
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis (Actress) | Keywords: pretend, The Less
«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 pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act-»
«Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.»
«The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.»
«Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend.»
«The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe»
«The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Honesty, Honor | Keywords: live with, pretend