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Tonight, can we just pretend that you want me too?
— N'Zuri Za Austin
I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.
— David Levithan
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
— Edmund White
No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.
— Rebecca McNutt
You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
— Gayle Forman
You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous.
— Donatella Versace
You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.
— Rainbow Rowell
When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.
— Ellen Wittlinger
I know you don't want to scare her, but you can't pretend that her life isn't going to be hard. It's not fair.
— Alexandra Bracken
I can't pretend to be enjoying this. I can't pretend I'm enjoying going out there and playing this style.
— Tiffeny Milbrett
You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.
— James Van Der Beek
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
— Olivia Wilde
Don't worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real.
— Jill Shalvis
You can pretend to admire, but, unless you are a superb actress, you can't pretend to laugh. Laughter is genuine or else it is just a noise.
— Christopher Milne
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
— Federico Fellini
I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.
— Mathieu Kassovitz
On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.
— Joyce Carol Oates
One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.
— Cynthia Lewis
I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.
— Nelson Mandela
I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.
— Thomas Piketty
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I can't swim in a sea of mediocrity and pretend I'm not drowning.
— Tracy L. Darity
But just know that there is evil in the world. Real evil. You can fight it, or you can hide and pretend it doesn't exist.
— Scott Snyder
After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.
— Blixa Bargeld
We are not perfect human beings, nor do we have to pretend to be, but it is necessary for us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.
— Satsuki Shibuya
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
— Fran Lebowitz
I can't wait to pretend I hate you today.""I can't wait to pretend I hate you more. — Colleen Hoover
She says you can't pretend you have nothing when you have so much.
— Caroline Kepnes
I can't pretend that I'm just a friend ... 'cause I'm thinkin' maybe we were meant to be.
— Janno Gibbs
When I think about kissing anyone, I imagine you. Only you. I can't pretend that this isn't so.
— Kresley Cole
God, baby, I can't do this. I can't pretend I'm not fucking thrilled you're standing in my house right now.
— Abbi Glines
All I want to do is pretend nothing is wrong and avoid it all, for eternity, but I know I can't.
— Amanda Grace
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
— Keith Barry
If I don't hear the words out loud, then I can almost pretend it didn't happen ... almost
— Jodi Ellen Malpas
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
— Sadie Jones
This is why I choose not to have real-life girlfriends. I can't even pretend without starting a fight.
— Colleen Hoover
I pretend I've got lots of confidence and I'm a big jock and like that but deep inside I'm a frightened, insecure, can't-make-it failure.
— Beatrice Sparks
Say that you love me. You don't have to mean it. You can lie. Just say it so I can pretend for a little whileFen to Malick - Weregild — Carole Cummings
never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live.
— Louisa May Alcott
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
— Billy Collins
You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.
— Nouman Ali Khan
I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
— Alan Palomo
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.
— Molly Crabapple
We are never the people we think we are. We are the ones we pretend, with all our hearts we can't become.
— Jodi Picoult
Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.
— Pete Townshend
The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.
— Trevor McDonald
It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.
— Glenn Greenwald
Who do you become when you've lost sight of who you are but the false you isn't one you can pretend to be anymore?
— Erin McCarthy
One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.
— Martin Fowler
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.
— Hilary Mantel
It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
— Libba Bray
We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.
— Alan Greenspan
You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?
— Sharon Horgan
When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.
— Ayi Kwei Armah
My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.
— Leeza Gibbons
given that I'm making decisions that involve so much money and so many people, I can't afford to pretend to know what's up.
— Sophia Amoruso
It's the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don't live up to it.
— Sophia Amoruso
I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not
— Veronica Roth
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
— Marya Mannes
I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.
— Cheshire Cat
You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
— Claire Bloom
Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.
— Cecelia Ahern
Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.
— Craig Venter
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
— James Agate
Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.
— Carolyn Byers Ruch
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
— Kurt Vonnegut
I can't even pretend to play golf.
— Alan Arkin
I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
— Holly Black
I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.
— Amy Sedaris
I really like him. I can't help it. And no matter how hard i try to pretend otherwise, it doesn't make it any less true.
— Alyson Noel
Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
— Luigi Pirandello
