{"quotes":[{"text":"Life is for those that deserve it. Those kings amongst men who can climb out of barrels and will dare to break through glass walls and to transcend all of this whatever it is, these eyes to the ground, this pretence, acting only as is expected and never as is intended. We have been told what is acceptable in what situation and so we take heed. This is not living. In the real world, in nature, there is no need to pretend. There is no place for it.","author":"Oli Anderson","tags":["authenticity","breaking-out","conformity","herd-mentality","intention","pretence","reality","society"],"id":29018,"author_id":"Oli+Anderson"},{"text":"Act as if you don't know me, and I will make it seem as though you don't exist.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["abysmal","attitude","bad-attitude","cockiness","ego","egocentricity","haughtiness","haughty","my-life","myself","negative-attitude","negative-behaviour","not-by-force","pretence","pride","repudiation","self-centred","self-love","self-obsession","selfishness","shun","snob","vexation"],"id":40595,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["cry","crying","design","fake-friends","fake-people","harm","hurt","hurtful","incessant","intention","malicious-intent","pretence","scheme","smiling","target","too-much","tool","trick"],"id":77004,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a real paradox when put together with the 'rugged individual' part of the Success Myth. How can I be a rugged individual, be my own man and conform at the same time? Conforming means 'Don't make a wave', 'Don't rock the boat'. Be a nice gal or a good ol' boy. This means that we have to pretend a lot.  'We are taught to be nice and polite. We are taught that these behaviors (most often lies) are better than telling the truth. Our churches, schools, and politics are rampant with teaching dishonesty (saying things we don't mean and pretending to feel ways we don't feel). We smile when we feel sad; laugh nervously when dealing with grief; laugh at jokes we don't think are funny; tell people things to be polite that we surely don't mean.' - Bradshaw On: The Family.","author":"John Bradshaw","tags":["conform","congruence","dishonesty","good-boy","good-girl","lies","make-waves","paradox","politeness","pretence","rock-the-boat","shame"],"id":82718,"author_id":"John+Bradshaw"},{"text":"Power comes at a price, love,' Veliss replied through bared teeth, maintaining the smile she offered to the townsfolk lining the square.'What power?'All power. The power to rule, to kill, or, in your case this fine morning, the power to incite the lust of the old goat you're about to meet.'Lust? I have no desire to incite lust in anyone.'Veliss turned to her with a quizzical expression, her smile suddenly genuine. 'Then I'm afraid you're in for a lifetime of disappointment.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["afraid","command","conversation","cost","creep","desire","disappointment","fake","funny","goat","incite-encourage","kill","laugh","life","lifetime","love","lust","man","old","payment","people","perv","power","pretence","pretend","price","priest","rule","smile","strength","teeth","tell","townsfolk","truth"],"id":86231,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.","author":"Libba Bray","tags":["girls","okay","pretence"],"id":86903,"author_id":"Libba+Bray"},{"text":"In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an essential drug called pretense.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["addiction","brand","brand-name","drug","essential","false","narcissism","narcissists","pretence","pretense","self","selfie","selfie","selfies","smile","smiles"],"id":95023,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["cassandra-clare","cat","church","city-of-lost-souls","humor","pretence","the-mortal-instruments"],"id":112008,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"},{"text":"Courage?' I gave a very soft laugh. 'I find courage is just another of life's illusions. In the end, we all do what we must.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["amusement","behave","believe","courage","deprecating","do","end","honest","humor","illusion","laugh","life","must","need","pretence","pretend"],"id":112599,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["acid","attack","bad-people","calumny","chemical","counterfeit","deception","decievers","demon","devil","fake","fake-friends","fault-finders","food-for-thought","gossip","haters","hatred","hurt","incessant","insanity","negative","negative-people","pessimism","plot","ploy","pretence","pretenders","slander","slanderers","smiles","strategy","swindle","sycophants","toxic-people","trick","troubesome-people","trouble","villain"],"id":112871,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}