“You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.”
“Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking that you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do.”
“There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.”
“Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere”
“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”
“Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.”