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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.


Sacha Guitry

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You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty
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OSCAR WILDE Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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KURT VONNEGUT, JR. Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
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CHELSEA HANDLER I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
GAYLE FORMAN To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
SADE ADU Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.
BERNARD GOLDBERG You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.
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KURT VONNEGUT JR. I can't remember how to cry.
SHERMAN ALEXIE Pretend to be happy and eventually you will believe that you are.
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
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JAY WOODMAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I'm not like them
But I can pretend
KURT COBAIN Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
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