To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
– Jacques Derrida
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- Given Loughner’s obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too. – Walter Kirn
- …they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us. – Ayn Rand
- Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That’s what fiction is: a game of pretend. – Marty Rubin
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- Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don’t but its harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do.. – Anonymous
- Wind has no home in the world,and therefore wanders everywhere.Light has no home in the universe,and therefore returns to God. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I think therefore I am. Does that mean ‘I feel therefore I’m not’? But only through feeling can I get at thinking. – Jeanette Winterson
- She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. – William Shakespeare
- I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian – AE Samaan
- I think, therefore I am an individual… not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am… Libertarian. – AE Samaan
- I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I’m very happy. – Dave Eggers
- New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly. – Jeannette Walls
- What is fear but that -˜thing’ that we believed to be as powerful as it pretended to be. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- I think Dad wanted to feel the pain, to feel his body cry, an urgent reminder that he was still alive. I pretended not to notice. – Raquel Cepeda
- Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light. – Melissa de la Cruz
- Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber. – Suman Pokhrel
- I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor’s table which, in one of The System’s obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box. – Sergio de la Pava
- We pretended she’d only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper – T Greenwood
- As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. – Albert Camus
- She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need. – Natalie J Damschroder
- She probably had her nose stuck in a book, living in a pretend fantasy world while I was actually out there living in the real fantasy world. – Jennifer L Armentrout
- Some human beings in their craftiness thought they can pretend to be good when they are actually bad. – Bamigboye Olurotimi
- Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want – Tucker Max
- It’s really difficult to pretend that you are happy when you actually are not in a state to face someone!! – Sachin Jha
- A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false. – Criss Jami
- Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. – Jacques Barzun
- This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn’t try to change the other party. – Jacques Chardonne
- Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y’see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean…. – Brian Jacques
- Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. – Jacques Delille
- Don’t think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful. – Brian Jacques
- Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable. – Jacques Yonnet
- Do everything with the greatest possible calm and serenity and out of the greatest, purest and holiest love of Jesus and Mary. – Father Jacques Philippe
- Peace has gone on too long. Something inside me says that trouble such as these shores have never known is headed our way. – Brian Jacques
- In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. – Jacques Lacan
- Love is giving something you don’t have to someone who doesn’t want it. – Jacques Lacan
- If you teach success, you will taste success! – Jacques van der Merwe
- Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist. – Jacques Rueff