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«Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.»
«There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.»
Author: Jane Jacobs
| Keywords:
dishonest, disorder, ignoring, mask, meaner, outright, pretended, served, struggling, suppressing, ugliness
«What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.»
Author: William Goldman
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admitted, billy, frenzy, haunted, passing game, petrified, petrifies, petrifying, phrase, pressed, pretended, secretly
«Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
guard, imposture, impostures, patriotism, pretended
«It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.»
«My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!»