“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.”
“You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.”
“Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth we just want to be ourselves.”
“when there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants. ”
“Because if you can't dream you can't pretend that he's still there”
“She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.”