quotes about Pretence

“Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.”

Source : Pico Iyer (2014). “The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

“You are what you pretend to be.”

Source : Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity (2011). “Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas”, p.161, Random House

“I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier”

“Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.”

“Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.”

“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.”

“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,”

Source : Studies in the History of the Renaissance "The School of Giorgione" (1873)

“History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.”

“It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.”

Source : Interview with Jim "Stax" Vejvoda, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

“My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.”