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pretence
«That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act-»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
Acts of Love, amounts, get to, image, Image An, letting, locked, performing, pretence, pretend, pretending, real person
«Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. (Matthew 23:14)»
Author: Bible
| About:
Christianity,
Hypocrisy,
Religion
| Keywords:
damnation, devour, house of prayer, hypocrites, Matthew, Pharisees, pretence, scribes, widows
«ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alderman, covers, ingenious, marauding, pretence, thieving
«The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| About:
Discrimination,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
cloaked, cripple, crippled, curse, divide, immigrant, immigrants, No Wave, obsessions, prejudices, pretence, targets, wave
«Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.»
«Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.»
Author: Robert Frost
| Keywords:
pretence