Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.
Dave EggersStichwörter: dignity affectations
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: passion poetry literary-criticism poseurs affectations pretension algernon-charles-swinburne mimicry
Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British?
Julian FellowesStichwörter: humor actors movies stereotypes clichés british perceptions affectations accents directors film-industry movie-business claudette-colbert
The girls were always running out of money, out of cash, precisely, to pay taxi drivers, train conductors, men who delivered pizzas after dark. They borrowed cash, normally, upon arrival. They borrowed passions—Wallace Stevens, Joseph Conrad, Mozart, hiking, the Bible—from each other, as girls of another generation borrowed clothes.
Renata AdlerStichwörter: affectations
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