“You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.”
“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.”
“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”
“Because if you can't dream you can't pretend that he's still there”
“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”
“You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.”