There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

Vera Nazarian

Tags: lies playing lie illusion games acting falsehood pretend game pretense act artifice pretending pretence

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There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Tony Horwitz

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Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

Cassandra Clare

Tags: humor church cat the-mortal-instruments cassandra-clare pretence city-of-lost-souls

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JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?
LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.
JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?
LENORE: I smell trap.
JAY: I smell breakthrough. The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more?
LENORE: I would kill for a shower.

David Foster Wallace

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