#pretend

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#bouncing #even #financial #life #life is a

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

What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#elements #i #just #music #pretend

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #assert #beliefs #body #consciousness

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#civilization #nation #pretending

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#human world #i #i can #laptop #part

Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me. ↗

— Adam Levine

#everyone #go #i #loves #me

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it. ↗

— Wellington Mara

#church #does #pretend #science #scientists

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#consider #education #england #female #life

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

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