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#pretense

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There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.


Vera Nazarian


#acting #artifice #falsehood #game #games

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.


William Adams


#countries #cruel #death #failed #god

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.


Mikhail Bakunin


#equality #fraud #freedom #lie #lying

Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.


William Shakespeare


#beauty #falsehood #ornament #pretense #beauty

After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his little village who, piece by piece, strips off his Sunday best, slowly changing back into a peasant as he gets closer to his home.


Bruno Schulz


#pretense #urbanity #change

[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them, they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.


Emma Donoghue


#caring #children #cuteness #hypocrisy #kids

I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.


Janos Kadar


#communist #deeds #every #example #foundations

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.


Tennessee Williams


#confidence #especially #feel #i #influenced

Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#cakes #humor #modesty #pretense #tea-parties

I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.


Criss Jami


#christianity #enemies #fabrications #facts #flattery






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