#pretended

I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me. ↗

— Arthur Bremer

#hit #home #i #living #me

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. ↗

— Florence King

#about #been #best #cigarette #even

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show. ↗

— Sherman Hemsley

#down #elementary #elementary school #everyone #fell

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world. ↗

— Adam Sedgwick

#attributes #created #days #estimate #his

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#communism #communist #doctrine #had #happen

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure. ↗

— I. F. Stone

#burlesque #difference #exposure #former #never

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange. ↗

— Maureen McCormick

#became #could #her #i #imperfect

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#handle #i #kid #microphone #pretended