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Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
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To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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To deceive ones selfe is very easie.
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That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.
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Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.
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In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.
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There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.
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Pretense cannot sustain blind power.
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To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
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There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
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There's a great deal of power in pretending.
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I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed.
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We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who, through lack of moral fibre, fail to live up to the reputation which is theirs already.
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Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.
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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
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We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.
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Sincerity? I can fake that.
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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People striving for approval from others become phony.
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Intentions are ambitious liars.
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A corruption of intentions.
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Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
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Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious, base.
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We all pretend things sometimes. And sometimes we leave thing too late.
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Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.
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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.
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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
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It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
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Tricking is a evolution of innovative movement & self Expression.
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Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.
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One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style
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A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
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salacious gossip. The fact that
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There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.
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Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,
vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.
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Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
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life pretending to be someone they're not." He
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There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
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There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.
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The fake missed sincerity.
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The throbbing habits of assumption tinted with malice lead to decisions and actions that drum out faith, trust and respect towards a crashing carelessness and uselessness. Be effective by discarding sneaking suspicions.
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What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?
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Gentlemen lacking substantial sympathy with their leader found it to be comfortable to deceive themselves, and raise their hearts at the same time by the easy enthusiasm of noise.
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The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking
but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.
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I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of show business.
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There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
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obsequious courting of the mob
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Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
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We are pretenders.
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Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.
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Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
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Presumptions macerate mind.
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The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus
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I understand what lies hidden beneath beguiling words. I understand the trap beneath extravagant words. I understand the deceit beneath depraved words. And I understand the weariness beneath evasive words.
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The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
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Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
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Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride,
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One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is - which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,- is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue.
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When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
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It is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets
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I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.
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covetousness. But,
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When one lived a life that was, essentially, a lie, appearances were everything.
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Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.
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Prophesying is lying professionally.
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Wrinkled women lifting their faces, chasing their youth.
Fat men sucking in bellies.
Poor folks putting on airs.
Sinners acting like saints.
All of us keeping pace with our companions, stepping lively in this dance of deceit.
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I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere. ORONTE
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Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
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Having all these lies so that you could feel special. It's time to let go of fantasy and imagined problems. It's time to embrace the crude and harsh truths.

That the existents, the discourses, the frameworks, your words, your meanings, and your definitions, all begin to fade, away, again
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When people possess information they deem too problematic to disclose, they will deceive. Contrastively, in situations where little personal, relational, or professional costs
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Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.
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Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
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She was big on patination. That was how quality wore in, she said, as opposed to out. Distressing, on the other hand, was the faking of patination, and was actually a way of concealing a lack of quality.
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
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My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.
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I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
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I was raised to pretend.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.
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The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than to impress the gullible.
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The problem of pretending to be alive.
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I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.
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Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).
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It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
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To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
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I try not to fake anything.
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Don't pretend to know me when I don't even know myself ...
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Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.
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Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Bluster until it's real.
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Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.
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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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Hypocrite sneers.