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Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or...

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We gotta be willing to let it hurt. You know, all this notion that acting is “yeah it’s pretend” and...

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A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with cleanunderwear—instead of b...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a m...

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So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it...

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As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret...

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Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream? But the misery of the world, sh...

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To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

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William JoyceNicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

She represents something about the corporate world that repel me, some deep coldness masked as relen...

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Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...

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This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and e...

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Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

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Fred RogersYou Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor