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Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.

~ Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Hope Human Pain Pretension When The Cynic Cries

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

~ Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Affectations Algernon Charles Swinburne Literary Criticism Mimicry Passion Poetry Poseurs Pretension

Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.

~ Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak Humility Lessons Life Life Lessons Loser Pretension Winner

I was going to stop pretending that just because we were in ministry we were perfect. I was tired of wearing the mask of ministry, and knew that I needed to start living the life.

~ Anna Aquino

Anna Aquino A Marriage In Time Christianity Church Life Mask Ministry Perfect Pretension

A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa.

~ E. Norman Torry

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Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

~ Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Greatness Myth Pretension Sardonic

Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.

~ Sreesha Divakaran

Sreesha Divakaran Lies Pretense Pretension Truth

A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of his pretensions.

~ Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson Book Pretension Writing

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

~ Criss Jami

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Perhaps it is only when we realize and celebrate the intrinsic value of every human life that celebrity - true celebrity - shines most brightly. On our deathbeds, none of us will speak of the jobs we’ve held or the stuff we’ve acquired in our lifetimes; here bull markets and Nielsen ratings are irrelevant. A life-threatening illness jettisons pretension in no time flat. Death is the great equalizer. Death dares us to define what really matters.

~ Nancy Cobb

Nancy Cobb Death Equality Pretension

Don't you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its talents.

~ Zhuangzi

Zhuangzi Arrogance Hubris Overconfidence Pretension Talent

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best exponents of the art of contemporary photography continue to produce work that fits broadly within the tradition of what Evans termed 'documentary style'.

~ Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer Art Contemporary Documentary Photography Pretension

Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment

~ Michel De Montaigne

Michel De Montaigne Deceit Pretension Vanity
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