#pretend

Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead. ↗

— Joseph Bruchac

#enemy #possum #pretending-death #shot-twice #twice

The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend. ↗

— Alan Moore

#cities #clothes #houses #life #machines

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#healing #heart #imaginary-friend #imagination #inspirational

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise? ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#get #knows #lot #money #otherwise

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#actions #annoys #commercial #doing #find

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#believe #get #great #hard #just

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth. ↗

— Albert Finney

#else #i #i always #lie #living

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#exists #important #life #none #often

I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up. ↗

— Benjamin F. Wade

#between #body #communication #country #dwarfish

I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work. ↗

— David Wain

#enjoy #guys #his #i #i am