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Pretending Quotes

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

"A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

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

"Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King".

The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “Alice Adams”, p.247, Booklassic

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

"It's all gone widescreen". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2006.

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

Joseph Bruchac (2006). “Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two”, p.81, Penguin